The metabolic N-oxidation of carcinogenic arylamines in relation to nitrogen charge density and oxidation potential.

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a need to identify and evaluate an effective mitigation program for arsenic exposure from drinking water in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the effectiveness of a multifaceted mitigation program to reduce As exposure among 11,746 individuals in a prospective cohort study initiated in 2000 in Ara...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chen Y,van Geen A,Graziano JH,Pfaff A,Madajewicz M,Parvez F,Hussain AZ,Slavkovich V,Islam T,Ahsan H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to inorganic arsenic is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, with susceptibility differing by sex. Although evidence from in vitro studies suggests that arsenic alters post-translational histone modifications (PTHMs), evidence in humans is limited. OBJECTIVES:The objectives were to det...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Howe CG,Liu X,Hall MN,Slavkovich V,Ilievski V,Parvez F,Siddique AB,Shahriar H,Uddin MN,Islam T,Graziano JH,Costa M,Gamble MV

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Hemoglobin adducts of the common metabolite of the tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA) 4-hydroxy-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (HPB) and of 4-aminobiphenyl (4-ABP) were quantified in blood samples from smokers and nonsmokers to test their suitability for biomonitoring tobacco smoke exposure. Additionally, TSNA adducts were...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schäffler G,Betz C,Richter E

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported incidence of acute respiratory illness in families exposed to different concentrations of air pollution was studied during two consecutive school years. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of increased exposure to sulfur dioxide and suspended particulate matter. In each of four study comm...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Love GJ,Lan SP,Shy CM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro liver preparations are increasingly used for the study of hepatotoxicity of chemicals. In recent years their actual advantages and limitations have been better defined. The cell models, slices, and mainly primary hepatocyte cultures, appear to be the most powerful in vitro systems, as liver-specific functions...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Guillouzo A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite evidence of atrazine toxicity in developing organisms from experimental studies, few studies--and fewer epidemiologic investigations--have examined the potential effects of prenatal exposure. OBJECTIVES:We assessed the association between adverse birth outcomes and urinary biomarkers of prenatal atr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chevrier C,Limon G,Monfort C,Rouget F,Garlantézec R,Petit C,Durand G,Cordier S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems of quantitating chrysotile in water by fiber count techniques are reviewed briefly and the use of mass quantitation is suggested as a preferable measure. Chrysotile fiber has been found in almost every sample of natural water examined, but generally transmission electron miscroscopy (TEM) is required beca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Speil S

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of chromium(VI) with one equivalent of ascorbate was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in the presence of 0.10 M 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxide (DMPO) at room temperature in 0.10 M (N-[2-hydroxyethyl]piperazine-N'-[2-ethanesulfonic acid]) (HEPES) and 0.05 M tris(hydroxymethyl)aminometh...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stearns DM,Courtney KD,Giangrande PH,Phieffer LS,Wetterhahn KE

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to investigate exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in a young urban population in a developing country, with focus on potentially highly exposed children working informally as scrap scavengers at a large municipal waste disposal site. We also set out to investigate whether hydroxyla...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Athanasiadou M,Cuadra SN,Marsh G,Bergman A,Jakobsson K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinogenic properties of selected metals and their compounds are reviewed to provide a useful reference for existing knowledge on relationships between physical and chemical forms, kinetics and carcinogenic potential and between epidemiology, bioassays, and short-term tests. Extensive consideration is given to a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Magos L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of in vitro bioassays to detect the potential carcinogenicity of metal compounds is reviewed. The in vitro bioassays discussed include: bacterial reversion analysis to determine the capacity of metal salts to revert Salmonella typhimurium histidine auxotrophs or to revert Escherichia coli WP 2 tryp- to tr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sirover MA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Particulate matter (PM) in outdoor air pollution was recently designated a Group I carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This determination was based on the evidence regarding the relationship of PM2.5 and PM10 to lung cancer risk; however, the IARC evaluation did not include ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hamra GB,Guha N,Cohen A,Laden F,Raaschou-Nielsen O,Samet JM,Vineis P,Forastiere F,Saldiva P,Yorifuji T,Loomis D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic chemicals have in common the ability to act specifically on cells in cycle. Bacteria are more sensitive in the exponential growth phase than when growing slowly in media. Similar observations have been made on a variety of systems ranging from bacteria, yeast, higher plants and invertebrates to vertebrates i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harbison RD

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of people worldwide are exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water, and ingestion of inorganic arsenic (InAs) has been associated with increased risks of cancer. The primary metabolic pathway of ingested InAs is methylation to monomethyl arsenic (MMA) and dimethyl arsenic (DMA). However, people vary great...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Steinmaus C,Carrigan K,Kalman D,Atallah R,Yuan Y,Smith AH

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:The Tradescantia genetic system developed by the late Dr. Arnold H. Sparrow for the study of effects of ionizing radiation is applicable to chemical mutagen detection. Early radiobiological data demonstrated that the stamen hairs were sensitive to as little as 0.25 rad of x-rays and that the number of cells showing a ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schairer LA,Van't Hof J,Hayes CG,Burton RM,de Serres FJ

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of technical and statistical problems in monitoring the temporal and spatial variation of local area death rates in the United States for evidence of systematically elevated risks. An analytic strategy is proposed to reduce one of the major statistical concerns, i.e., that of identifying areas with ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Manton KG,Stallard E,Creason JP,Riggan WB

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:Serious problems emerge when evaluating evidence on lead neurotoxicity in children. The extent of these problems and ways to control them were explored in a study of 1291 children from the first class in the schools of Aarhus municipality, Denmark. The lead retention in circumpulpal dentin in shed deciduous teeth was ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Grandjean P,Lyngbye T,Hansen ON

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of inhalation toxicology as a distinct discipline can be traced back well over one hundred years. The technology has advanced in terms of materials and designs used to construct inhalation chambers and the equipment used to generate controlled test atmospheres of a wide variety of gases, vapors, dusts,...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dorato MA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome-specific composite DNA probes (chromosome painting) is a reliable and efficient method for detecting structural chromosome aberrations. Painting is now being used to quantify chromosome damage in many human populations. In one such study we evaluated 91 unexposed peop...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tucker JD,Moore DH 2nd

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to provide a basis for effectively protecting nonsmokers from acute sensory impacts and for preventing deterioration of indoor air quality caused by environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) emissions. With an olfactory experiment we determined odor detection thresholds (OT) of sidestream ETS (...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Junker MH,Danuser B,Monn C,Koller T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to oxidants is associated with an increased incidence of malignancy; however, the mechanism(s) by which oxidants contribute to carcinogenesis is unknown. Since oncogene activation plays an important role in carcinogenesis, we hypothesized that hydroxyl radical-induced DNA damage might contribute to ca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jackson JH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on the influence of selenium on the toxicity of methylmercury and of methylmercury on selenium as a nutrient and toxic agent are reviewed. Selenium as selenite has a relative protective effect on acute and subacute toxicity of methylmercury in the rat and the quail. The protective mechanism is far f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Skerfving S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined effects of carbon monoxide and low temperature on daily variation in hospital admissions for congestive heart failure (CHF) were examined for a 4-year period in Chicago, Illinois. Medicare hospital admissions for CHF were analyzed as a function of the maximum hourly temperature, maximum hourly levels of c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Morris RD,Naumova EN

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human controlled-exposure studies have assessed the impact of ambient fine particulate matter on cardiac autonomic function measured by heart rate variability (HRV), but whether these effects are modified by concomitant ozone exposure remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:In this study we assessed the impact of O(3) a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fakhri AA,Ilic LM,Wellenius GA,Urch B,Silverman F,Gold DR,Mittleman MA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of pharmaceuticals in aquatic environments and in drinking water has prompted significant public interest regarding potential adverse ecological effects and risks to human health. OBJECTIVES:The Environmental Health Summit held in North Carolina, 10-11 November 2008, explored the issues associa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rodriguez-Mozaz S,Weinberg HS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) conducts a variety of surveys designed to provide cross-sectional estimates of the prevalence of various factors measuring the health of Americans. When these cross-sectional estimates are put together and plotted over time, they provide a picture of the trends in the h...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Feinleib M,Wilson RW

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of fiber-induced cytotoxicity to P388D1 macrophagelike cells has been demonstrated to parallel (thus far without exception) the probability that the fiber will induce a pleural sarcoma (mesothelioma) in rats. This startling parallel in both cases seems to be essentially independent of the chemical natur...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lipkin LE

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00