Abstracts of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), 24-28 August 2014, Seattle, Washington.

abstract：:Under a cooperative agreement between New York University and the Environmental Protection Agency, and in collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo (USP), a study is ongoing in Cubatao, Brazil, to try to establish exposure-response relationships on the impact of specific industrial effluents on respiratory functi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Spektor DM,Hofmeister VA,Artaxo P,Brague JA,Echelar F,Nogueira DP,Hayes C,Thurston GD,Lippmann M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the estrogenicity of binary mixtures of the hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OHPCBs) 2,4,6-trichloro-4'-biphenylol (2,4,6-TCB-4'-OH) and 2,3,4,5-tetrachloro-4'-biphenylol and the pesticides endosulfan and dieldrin. The OHPCBs and pesticides were tested in both the MCF-7 focus assay and a competitive...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arcaro KF,Vakharia DD,Yang Y,Gierthy JF

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylcobalamin (methyl-B12) has been implicated in the biomethylation of the heavy metals (mercury, tin, platinum, gold, and thallium) as well as the metalloids (arsenic, selenium, tellurium and sulfur). In addition, methylcobalamin has been shown to react with lead, but the lead-alkyl product is unstable in water. D...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ridley WP,Dizikes L,Cheh A,Wood JM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide climate change and loss of biodiversity are issues of global scope and importance that have recently become subjects of considerable public concern. Unlike classical public health issues and many environmental issues, their perceived threat lies in their potential to disrupt ecological functioning and stabil...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jutro PR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report reviews the recent literature on the adverse effects of occupational factors on fertility and related reproductive outcomes. Few studies fulfill the criteria of good study design because of small sample size, insensitive measures of effect, selection, recall, and observation bias, weak if any control of co...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baranski B

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may accelerate the cognitive and motor dysfunction found in normal aging, but few studies have examined these outcomes and PCB exposure among older adults. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated neuropsychological status and low-level PCB exposure among older adults living along contaminate...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fitzgerald EF,Belanger EE,Gomez MI,Cayo M,McCaffrey RJ,Seegal RF,Jansing RL,Hwang SA,Hicks HE

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Children's Post-Pesticide Application Exposure Study (CPPAES) was conducted to look at the distribution of chlorpyrifos within a home environment for 2 weeks after a routine professional crack-and-crevice application and to determine the amount of the chlorpyrifos that is absorbed by a child living within the home...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hore P,Robson M,Freeman N,Zhang J,Wartenberg D,Ozkaynak H,Tulve N,Sheldon L,Needham L,Barr D,Lioy PJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposures to high-dose ionizing radiation and high-dose rate ionizing radiation are established risk factors for childhood acute leukemia (AL). The risk of AL following exposure to lower doses due to natural background radiation (NBR) has yet to be conclusively determined. METHODS:AL cases diagnosed over 19...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Demoury C,Marquant F,Ielsch G,Goujon S,Debayle C,Faure L,Coste A,Laurent O,Guillevic J,Laurier D,Hémon D,Clavel J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Participants at the Napa Conference on Genetic and Molecular Ecotoxicology assessed the status of this field in light of heightened concerns about the genetic effects of exposure to hazardous substances and recent advancements in our capabilities to measure those effects. We present here a synthesis of the ideas discu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anderson S,Sadinski W,Shugart L,Brussard P,Depledge M,Ford T,Hose J,Stegeman J,Suk W,Wirgin I

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Africa is quickly becoming a destination for information technology in the form of tons of used computers, fax machines, cell phones, and other electronics. Although many of these machines can be repaired and resold, up to 75% of the electronics shipped to Africa is junk. This equipment, when dumped, may leach lead, m...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schmidt CW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thyroid hormones are important regulators of brain development. During critical periods of development, even transient disorders in thyroid hormone availability may lead to profound neurologic impairment. Animal experiments have shown that certain environmental pollutants, including heavy metals and organoch...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Maervoet J,Vermeir G,Covaci A,Van Larebeke N,Koppen G,Schoeters G,Nelen V,Baeyens W,Schepens P,Viaene MK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Martineau et al. (2002) reported that St. Lawrence beluga (SLB) have high cancer rates. Unfortunately, errors in their interpretation of the data have led them to overstate the importance of cancer and its links to environmental sources. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hammill MO,Lesage V,Kingsley MC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium resorbs alveolar fluid through combined action of sodium channels and the sodium pump, Na,K-ATPase. The lung often is exposed to hyperoxia in disease states and hyperoxia generates a mixture of reactive oxygen species. In vivo and in vitro exposure of rat lung and alveolar type II cells, respective...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wendt CH,Sharma R,Bair R,Towle H,Ingbar DH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of rats to quartz (or various other particles) can lead to the development of lung tumors. At the moment, the mechanisms involved in particle-induced tumor formation are not clarified. However, it is suggested that inflammation, in conjunction with the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and an enhanc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nehls P,Seiler F,Rehn B,Greferath R,Bruch J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies demonstrate that infection, specifically pneumonia, contributes substantially to the increased morbidity and mortality among elderly individuals following exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM). This laboratory has previously demonstrated that a single inhalation exposure of Streptococcus pn...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zelikoff JT,Schermerhorn KR,Fang K,Cohen MD,Schlesinger RB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies performed earlier have shown a positive relation between blood lead (a parameter for lead body burden) and blood pressure, whereas such a relation between urine cadmium (a parameter for cadmium body burden) and blood pressure could not be shown. Median (i.e., 50th percentile, P50) blood levels in the general p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： de Kort WL,Zwennis WC

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children and their parents in residences are often protected by insecticides from nuisance and disease-bearing mosquitoes. The annual worldwide consumption of the four major types of residential insecticide products--aerosols, mosquito coils, liquid vaporizers, and vaporizing mats--is in the billions of units. Mosquit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Krieger RI,Dinoff TM,Zhang X

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the fate of 14C-labeled vinyl chloride (VC) following oral administration and inhalation exposure in rats demonstrated that the disposition of VC in the body is a function of the dose. More importantly, from the data available, it appears that a correlation exists between doses of VC which cause tumors and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watanabe PG,Gehring PJ

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct studies of the function of a given cell type often require that the cell type be obtained in pure culture. A number of different specific metabolic activities have been attributed to pulmonary endothelial cells, yet with few exceptions the conclusions were based on indirect evidence. Thus, to improve our abilit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ryan US,Ryan JW

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic tubing soft and flexible. Animal data show that adverse effects of DEHP exposure may include reduced fertility, reduced sperm production in males, and ovarian dysfunction in females. Known treatments that involve high DEHP exposures are...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rais-Bahrami K,Nunez S,Revenis ME,Luban NL,Short BL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential danger of natural mercury accumulation in the diet of the Eskimo is evaluated through mercury levels determined in cord blood, placenta, maternal blood, hair, and milk of 38 maternal-infant pairs from Anchorage and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Although mercury levels are not discernably dangerous, trends t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Galster WA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans are a potentially high-risk group for dietary exposure to methylmercury through fish consumption. However, blood mercury levels in this group have not been identified in recent reports of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the y...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hightower JM,O'Hare A,Hernandez GT

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of inhaled mineral fibers in the lung determines the site and severity of disease caused by the fibers. Some of our recent work has described the fate of inhaled asbestos fibers in rodents. After a brief inhalation exposure, asbestos fibers are deposited primarily at the first alveolar duct bifurcatio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Coin PG,Roggli VL,Brody AR

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few human studies have examined bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormones in men, and results are divergent. OBJECTIVES:We examined associations between urinary BPA concentration and reproductive hormones, as well as semen quality, in young men from the general popula...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lassen TH,Frederiksen H,Jensen TK,Petersen JH,Joensen UN,Main KM,Skakkebaek NE,Juul A,Jørgensen N,Andersson AM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we report a simple and efficient method for detecting nonsteroidal estrogens in a biologic sample. This method uses polyclonal antibodies to estradiol (E2) to immunoprecipitate these major biologically active steroidal estrogens, leaving behind the nonsteroidal estrogens, which are then detected in a c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Natarajan K,Overstreet JW,Rogers JM,Denison MS,Chen J,Lohstroh PN,McConnell DS,Lasley BL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the role of vinyl chloride metabolites in the various reaction sequences which comprise the metabolic pathway, including the interaction of reactive metabolities with some purine and pyrimidine residues of target-organ DNA, provides some explanation for the (oncogenic) properties associated with the ori...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hathway DE

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central feature of hemopoiesis is life-long, stable cell renewal. This process is supported by hemopoietic stem cells which, in the steady state, appear to be dormant in cell cycling. The entry into cell cycle of the dormant stem cells may be promoted by such factors as interleukin-1, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and gra...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ogawa M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extreme heat events (EHEs) are increasing in frequency in large U.S. cities and are responsible for a greater annual number of climate-related fatalities, on average, than any other form of extreme weather. In addition, low-density, sprawling patterns of urban development have been associated with enhanced s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stone B,Hess JJ,Frumkin H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-radical metabolites can be generated metabolically by a one-electron reductase-catalyzed reaction or a "peroxidase" catalyzed oxidation or by photoactivation of a wide variety of aromatic xenobiotics. Radicals may also be generated during lipid peroxidation. Some radicals can react with DNA or bind covalently or ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： O'Brien PJ

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence indicates a relationship between household indoor air pollution from cooking fires and adverse neonatal outcomes, such as low birth weight (LBW), in resource-poor countries. OBJECTIVE:We examined the effect of reduced wood smoke exposure in pregnancy on LBW of Guatemalan infants i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson LM,Bruce N,Eskenazi B,Diaz A,Pope D,Smith KR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00