Association between maternal serum perfluoroalkyl substances during pregnancy and maternal and cord thyroid hormones: Taiwan maternal and infant cohort study.

abstract：:A review of the present understanding of asthma leads to the following conclusions: an elevated IgE is the principal risk factor in the development of childhood asthma; secondary exposure to a wide range of environmental agents (including indoor bioallergens) accounts for the variations in prevalence; prevalence (defi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bates DV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychological sequelae are among the most pronounced effects in populations following exposure to oil spills. Women in particular represent a vulnerable yet influential population but have remained relatively understudied with respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DHOS). OBJECTIVE:To describe the rela...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rung AL,Gaston S,Oral E,Robinson WT,Fontham E,Harrington DJ,Trapido E,Peters ES

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many studies have examined the effects of air pollution on mortality, data limitations have resulted in fewer studies of both particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 and < 10 mi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zanobetti A,Schwartz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are persistent idiopathic symptoms that drive patients to seek medical care. MUPS syndromes include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome, and multiple chemical sensitivities. When MUPS occur after an environmental exposure or injury, an adversarial social conte...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Engel CC Jr,Adkins JA,Cowan DN

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen (Gal-GalNAc) represents a tumor-associated molecule, which is assumed to be one of the few chemically well-defined antigens with a proven association with malignancy. In order to analyze the role of the carbohydrate structure Gal-GalNAc for gastrointestinal tumors, we immunized Balb/c ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dippold W,Steinborn A,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzene has been known to be a bone marrow poison for almost a century. However, it was not until the last decade that benzene's carcinogenic potential was demonstrated by epidemiologic studies. The proposed regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to lower exposure levels of benzene in t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Infante PF,White MC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Air pollution exposure during pregnancy might affect placental growth and function, perhaps leading to pregnancy complications. OBJECTIVE:We prospectively evaluated the associations of maternal air pollution exposure with markers of placental growth and function among 7,801 pregnant women in the Netherlands...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： van den Hooven EH,Pierik FH,de Kluizenaar Y,Hofman A,van Ratingen SW,Zandveld PY,Russcher H,Lindemans J,Miedema HM,Steegers EA,Jaddoe VW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-3 (IL-3) and granulocyte/macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) are responsible for maintaining survival and stimulating growth of early dormant hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC). These cytokines exhibit extensive overlap, with GM-CSF supporting growth and differentiation of myeloid HPC. A charac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Irons RD,Stillman WS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally agreed that estrogens, and possibly androgens, are important in the etiology of breast cancer, but no consensus exists as to the precise estrogenic or androgenic environment that characterizes risk, or the exogenous factors that influence the hormonal milieu. Nearly all the epidemiological studies cond...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Toniolo PG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable associations of syntrophic fermentative organisms and populations that consume fermentation products play key roles in the anaerobic biodegradation of chlorinated organic contaminants. The involvement of these syntrophic populations is essential for mineralization of chlorinated aromatic compounds under methano...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Becker JG,Berardesco G,Rittmann BE,Stahl DA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization (WHO) released the fourth edition of Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality in July 2011. In this edition, the 400-µg/L drinking-water guideline for manganese (Mn) was discontinued with the assertion that because "this health-based value is well above concentrations of manganese ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Frisbie SH,Mitchell EJ,Dustin H,Maynard DM,Sarkar B

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The National Environmental Policy Act and related state laws require many public agencies to analyze and disclose potentially significant environmental effects of agency actions, including effects on human health. In this paper we review the purpose and procedures of environmental impact assessment (EIA), ex...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bhatia R,Wernham A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade has marked a radical change in the business of sustainability, say environmental activists and industrialists alike. On the wane are "greenwashing" campaigns in which corporations promote dubious environmental accomplishments to draw attention away from environmentally damaging practices. On the rise a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fields S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein (MT) promoter was methylated in rat hepatoma and in mouse lymphosarcoma cells by methylation of cytosine within the CpG dinucleotide region. After demethylation of MT-I promoter in mouse lymphosarcoma cells or in the transplanted rat hepatoma with 5-azacytidine, a potent inhibitor of DNA methyltransfer...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jacob ST,Majumder S,Ghoshal K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microscopic, ultrastructural, and morphometric study was made of the gills of tench (Tinca tinca, L.) subjected to acute experimental lead nitrate poisoning. Twenty-one adult tench were subjected to poisoning and a further 22 were used as controls. Lesions were characterized by the appearance of edema and epithelial...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Roncero V,Vincente JA,Redondo E,Gãzquez A,Duran E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estimated 8000 children 0 to 14 years of age are diagnosed annually with cancer in the United States. Leukemia and brain tumors are the most common childhood malignancies, accounting for 30 and 20% of newly diagnosed cases, respectively. From 1975 to 1978 to 1987 to 1990, cancer among white children increased sligh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zahm SH,Devesa SS

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current research indicates a role for several oncogenes in radiation-induced carcinogenesis in vivo and cell transformation in vitro. Certain oncogenes are probably also involved in some cases of human cancer caused by exposure to nonionizing radiation and may play a mechanistic role in the phenomenon of radioresistan...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Garte SJ,Burns FJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 2-year chronic inhalation study on methylene chloride (2000 or 0 ppm; 6 hr/day, 5 days/week), gas-uptake pharmacokinetic studies and tissue partition coefficient determinations were conducted on female B6C3F1, mice after 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, and 2 years of exposure. Using physiologically based pharmacokine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomas RS,Yang RS,Morgan DG,Moorman MP,Kermani HR,Sloane RA,O'Connor RW,Adkins B Jr,Gargas ML,Andersen ME

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increased concern over health effects related to potential exposure of building occupants to bioaerosols. We report the case of a worker with a respiratory illness related to bioaerosol exposure in a water-damaged building with extensive fungal contamination. We performed environmental tests to evaluate...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Trout D,Bernstein J,Martinez K,Biagini R,Wallingford K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants found in North American household products during the past four decades. These chemicals leach out in dust as products age, exposing individuals daily through inhalation and ingestion. Animal studies suggest that PBDEs disrupt sex hormones and adver...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goodyer CG,Poon S,Aleksa K,Hou L,Atehortua V,Carnevale A,Koren G,Jednak R,Emil S,Bagli D,Dave S,Hales BF,Chevrier J

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) cause a mixed-type (phenobarbital- plus 3-methylcholanthrene-like) induction of liver microsomal drug metabolizing enzymes in rats. However, 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexabromobiphenyl and 2,2',3,4,4',5,5'-heptabromobiphenyl, which together comprise less than 80% of PBBs (FireMaster), were shown t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Moore RW,Dannan GA,Aust SD

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlordane is a polychlorinated hydrocarbon that causes liver enlargement and induces mixed-function oxidases similar to those induced by phenobarbitone in the mouse. We have assessed the hepatocarcinogenicity (after 2 years) and the time course (over 6 months) of liver and thyroid cell proliferation in C57Bl/10J mice ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Barrass N,Stewart M,Warburton S,Aitchison J,Jackson D,Wadsworth P,Marsden A,Orton T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured volatile organic compound (VOC) exposures in multiple locations for a diverse population of children who attended two inner-city schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fifteen common VOCs were measured at four locations: outdoors (O), indoors at school (S), indoors at home (H), and in personal samples (P). Con...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Adgate JL,Church TR,Ryan AD,Ramachandran G,Fredrickson AL,Stock TH,Morandi MT,Sexton K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between human illness and exposure to Pfiesteria was first observed among laboratory personnel working with the microorganism. In 1997, in the setting of Pfiesteria activity on the Pocomoke River in Maryland, difficulties with learning and memory were epidemiologically associated with high-level exposur...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Morris JG Jr

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence that the multistage carcinogenic process is associated with the progressive acquisition of mutations in cellular proto-oncogenes and in growth-suppressor genes. At the same time, several types of evidence indicate that nongenotoxic agents and epigenetic events also play an important role...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Weinstein IB

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Developmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or methylmercury (MeHg) can result in a variety of neurotoxic effects, including long-term auditory deficits. However, little is known about the effects of combined exposure to PCBs and MeHg on auditory function. OBJECTIVE:We developmentally exposed...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Powers BE,Poon E,Sable HJ,Schantz SL

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Perfluoroalkyl acids are persistent compounds used in various industrial -applications. Of these compounds, perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) is currently detected in humans worldwide. A recent study on low-dose developmental exposure to PFOA in mice reported increased weight and elevated biomarkers of adiposity in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Halldorsson TI,Rytter D,Haug LS,Bech BH,Danielsen I,Becher G,Henriksen TB,Olsen SF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sulfation plays an important role both in detoxification and in the control of steroid activity. Studies in rodents have shown that the conversion of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to DHEA-sulfate is involved in learning and the memory process. METHODS:The effects of a range of plasticizers and related compo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harris R,Turan N,Kirk C,Ramsden D,Waring R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcystin-producing Microcystis bloom is a severe water problem in the world. Some reports indicate that chronic exposure to microcystin may result in liver damage in adults, but information on effects in children is limited. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship between microcystin exposure and live...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Li Y,Chen JA,Zhao Q,Pu C,Qiu Z,Zhang R,Shu W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00