Estimated reduction in cancer risk due to PAH exposures if source control measures during the 2008 Beijing Olympics were sustained.

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-level occupational exposures to some industrial chemicals have been associated with liver diseases, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, the potential role of low-level environmental pollution on liver disease in the general population has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVE:We determ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cave M,Appana S,Patel M,Falkner KC,McClain CJ,Brock G

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 15-16 September 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored the Conference on Preventable Causes of Cancer in Children. The conference was convened to examine rising trends in reported incidence of childhood cancer and the association of these trends with environmental exposures. This paper summarizes ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carroquino MJ,Galson SK,Licht J,Amler RW,Perera FP,Claxton LD,Landrigan PJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs, dioxins), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are environmental endocrine disruptors that have half-lives of 7-10 years in the human body and have toxicities that probably include carcinogenesis. A high ratio of 4-hydroxyl estradiol (4-O...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wang SL,Chang YC,Chao HR,Li CM,Li LA,Lin LY,Päpke O

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meeting on Marine Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, was attended by approximately 125 scientists, directors and representatives from many of the country's marine b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bessey O

更新日期：1976-02-01 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：:Previous investigations suggest that dietary sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contribute to the PAH-DNA adduct load in peripheral white blood cells (WBCs). In the current study, we measured PAH-DNA adducts by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in WBCs obtained from 47 California wildland (forest) fire...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rothman N,Poirier MC,Haas RA,Correa-Villasenor A,Ford P,Hansen JA,O'Toole T,Strickland PT

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestos and silica are well-known fibrogenic dusts. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of the molecular and cellular events that lead to fibrosis as a consequence of asbestos or silica inhalation. Previous studies have shown that asbestos stimulates superoxide anion production in alveolar macrophages th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holian A,Kelley K,Hamilton RF Jr

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured tumor-associated proteins (TAPs) and pollutants in blood, serum, and urine of 200 nonsmoking women 50-65 years of age, residing in the rural municipality of Peer or in Hoboken or Wilrijk, industrial suburbs of Antwerp, Belgium. Persons with occupational exposures or commuting to other towns were excluded. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： van Larebeke NA,Bracke ME,Nelen V,Koppen G,Schoeters G,Van Loon H,Vlietinck R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochlorines are persistent lipophilic compounds that accumulate in Inuit people living in circumpolar countries. Organochlorines accumulate as a result of the Inuits' large consumption of sea mammal fat; however, available data are limited to blood lipids, milk fat, and adipose tissue. We report results of organoc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dewailly E,Mulvad G,Pedersen HS,Ayotte P,Demers A,Weber JP,Hansen JC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preimplantation embryo loss during oviduct transit has been observed in adult mice after a 5-day neonatal exposure to the phytoestrogen genistein (Gen; 50 mg/kg/day). OBJECTIVE:We investigated the mechanisms underlying the contribution of the oviduct to infertility. METHODS:Female mice were treated on post...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jefferson WN,Padilla-Banks E,Phelps JY,Gerrish KE,Williams CJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associations between airborne particles and health outcomes have been documented worldwide; however, there is limited information regarding health effects associated with different particle sizes. OBJECTIVES:We explored the association between size-fractionated particle number concentrations (PNCs) and dail...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Meng X,Ma Y,Chen R,Zhou Z,Chen B,Kan H

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous occupational cohort studies of benzene-exposed workers have for the most part used only death certificates to validate diagnoses of workers developing leukemia and other hematopoietic and lymphoproliferative malignancies and related disorders (HLD). In a follow-up study of 74,828 benzene-exposed workers and a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Linet MS,Yin SN,Travis LB,Li CY,Zhang ZN,Li DG,Rothman N,Li GL,Chow WH,Donaldson J,Dosemeci M,Wacholder S,Blot WJ,Hayes RB

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells offer an interesting model system for evaluating differentiation because the cells are pluripotent, thus resembling germ cells and embryonic stem cells, and because a number of agents have been defined that are capable of promoting the differentiation of these cells. This chapter examine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Astigiano S,Sherman MI,Abarzúa P

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorinated hydrocarbons chloroform (CHCl3), 1,1-dichlorethane (1,1-DCE) and 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCE) have been detected in finished drinking water. When administered to B6C3F1 mice by gavage in corn oil, these compounds have been shown to induce hepatic tumors. The present study examines the effect on liver t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Klaunig JE,Ruch RJ,Pereira MA

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major aspects that must be considered in studies of the health effects of environmental pollutants are: the direct damage due to the exposure, the role of pre-existing disease, and effects of the exposure on the response to secondary stresses. In experimental studies at concentrations of air pollutants found in ur...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ehrlich R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysmenorrhea is a common gynecologic disorder in women of reproductive age. Previous studies have found an association between current cigarette smoking and prevalence of dysmenorrhea. This study investigated the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the occurrence of dysmenorrhea among...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chen C,Cho SI,Damokosh AI,Chen D,Li G,Wang X,Xu X

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lead exposure of children and their mothers has been studied in two towns with mean soil lead contents of 900 and 400 ppm. No significant difference in blood or fecal lead contents was demonstrated between the two populations, but a small difference in hair lead content was shown. The blood lead content of childre...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Barltrop D,Strehlow CD,Thorton I,Webb JS

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological monitoring of genotoxic hazard in the rubber industry was performed in 19 male workers and 20 age-matched controls in a local health unit in northern Italy. Peripheral blood lymphocytes were analyzed for the presence of DNA damage (single-cell microgel-electrophoresis, or comet assay) and for cytogenetic pa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Moretti M,Villarini M,Scassellati-Sforzolini G,Monarca S,Libraro M,Fatigoni C,Donato F,Leonardis C,Perego L

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:comments on S. Patandin et al. : Dietary exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins from infancy until adulthood: a comparison between breast-feeding, toddler, and long-term exposure. Environ Health Perspect 107:45-51 (1999). ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： LaKind JS,Filser JG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously established that lung cancer could be induced in rats by exposure to radon and radon daughters. Although the oat-cell carcinomas that are common in humans were not found in rats, other histological types of lung carcinomas, especially squamous cell carcinomas and primitive lung adenocarcinomas, ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Monchaux G,Morlier JP,Morin M,Chameaud J,Lafuma J,Masse R

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Two remote maritime populations were evaluated for their biological exposure to organochlorines in 1989-1990. Because of their high intake of seafood, these two populations have high biological levels. One hundred nine breast milk samples from Inuit women from Arctic Québec were analyzed to determine levels of polychl...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dewailly E,Ryan JJ,Laliberté C,Bruneau S,Weber JP,Gingras S,Carrier G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors affecting the design of an epidemiologic study assessing possible health effects from chemical waste disposal sites are reviewed. Such epidemiologic studies will most likely be prompted either by a known release of chemicals into the environment around the site, or by an unusual disease cluster in a population...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Buffler PA,Crane M,Key MM

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of complex interactions of climate variables at the levels of the pathogen, vector, and host, the potential influence of climate change on vector-borne and zoonotic diseases (VBZDs) is poorly understood and difficult to predict. Climate effects on the nonvector-borne zoonotic diseases are especially ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mills JN,Gage KL,Khan AS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data from deep uranium mines in Czechoslovakia indicated that mines are exposed to other mutagenic factors in addition to radon daughter products. Mycotoxins were identified as a possible source of mutagens in these mines. Mycotoxins were examined in 38 samples from mines and in throat swabs taken from 116 mine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Srám RJ,Dobiás L,Rössner P,Veselá D,Veselý D,Rakusová R,Rericha V

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need to identify specific biological indicator(s) of cadmium exposure so that the renal damage can be prevented. Towards this end, we have examined the usefulness of urinary metallothionein as an indicator of cadmium body burden. It is found that, in both animals and humans, urinary metallothionein level is...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Shaikh ZA,Tohyama C

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary components express a wide range of activities that can affect carcinogenesis. Naturally occurring substances in foods have been shown in laboratory experiments to serve as dietary antimutagens, either as bioantimutagens or as desmutagens. Dietary desmutagens may function as chemical inactivaters, enzymatic ind...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kohlmeier L,Simonsen N,Mottus K

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:In August 1997 we performed a follow-up survey of 146 lead-poisoned children from a community near a previously active auto battery recycling smelter in Haina near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Our follow-up survey confirmed a severe incidence of elevated blood lead (BPb) and erythrocyte protoporphyrin/zinc proto...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kaul B,Sandhu RS,Depratt C,Reyes F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children may be more susceptible to exposures to environmental toxins than adults and may be more vulnerable to their effects. Because of this, the health care community and those responsible for children need to be alert to possible environmental factors in identifying and responding to the health problems of childre...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goldman LR

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00