Barrier capacity of human placenta for nanosized materials.

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：:The effects of DEHP on sperm morphology and on peripheral blood micronuclei were studied for 12 weeks following five subacute IP injections of DEHP at 1/6, 1/12, and 1/60 of the LD50 per day. Sperm morphology was examined in both adult mice and rats, while peripheral blood micronuclei were scored in mice up to 4 weeks...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Douglas GR,Hugenholtz AP,Blakey DH

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:In an attempt to elucidate the relationship between DNA adduct formation and tumorigenesis, DNA adducts were measured in the livers and bladders of mice during chronic exposure to several different doses of 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) and 4-aminobiphenyl (4-ABP). Continuous oral administration of these compounds for...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Poirier MC,Beland FA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trying to publish a paper in a top-rated peer-reviewed journal can be a difficult and frustrating experience for authors. It is important that authors understand the general review process before submitting manuscripts for publication. OBJECTIVES:Editors-in-chief and associate editors from top-tier journals...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lee BM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many populations of amphibians are declining on all six continents on which they occur. Some causes of amphibian declines, such as habitat destruction, direct application of xenobiotics, and introduction of predators or competitors, are clearly attributable to human activities. Infectious disease appears to be the dir...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carey C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids, myomas) are the most common tumors occurring in the genital tract of women over 30 years of age. These benign uterine smooth-muscle tumors are estimated to be clinically significant in at least 25% of the American female population during their reproductive years. Furthermore, when thorou...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Newbold RR,DiAugustine RP,Risinger JI,Everitt JI,Walmer DK,Parrott EC,Dixon D

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:Much public health research has been directed to studies of cancer risks due to chemical agents. Recently, increasing attention has been given to adverse reproductive outcomes as another, shorter-term biologic indicator of public health impact. Further, several low-level ubiquitous physical agents have been implicated...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Meyer RE,Aldrich TE,Easterly CE

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To set occupational exposure limits (OELs) for aerosol particles, dusts, or chemicals, one has to evaluate whether mechanistic considerations permit identification of a no observed effect level (NOEL). In the case of carcinogenic effects, this can be assumed if no genotoxicity is involved, and exposure is considered s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Greim HA,Ziegler-Skylakakis K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We synthesized the main findings from an international epidemiologic study on the impact of biopersistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human reproductive function. DATA SOURCES AND EXTRACTION:We used a database with interview and biological data from 2,269 women and their spouses, and 18 published core paper...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bonde JP,Toft G,Rylander L,Rignell-Hydbom A,Giwercman A,Spano M,Manicardi GC,Bizzaro D,Ludwicki JK,Zvyezday V,Bonefeld-Jørgensen EC,Pedersen HS,Jönsson BA,Thulstrup AM,INUENDO.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies of the link between particulate matter (PM) concentrations and mortality rates have yielded a range of estimates, leading to disagreement about the magnitude of the relationship and the strength of the causal connection. Previous meta-analyses of this literature have provided pooled effect estima...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Levy JI,Hammitt JK,Spengler JD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the subject of the use of selected toxicology information resources in assessing relationships between chemical structure and specific biological end points. To assist the researcher in how to access the primary literature of genetic toxicology, teratogenesis, and carcinogenesis, three specific sp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wassom JS

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organophosphate developmental neurotoxicity involves multiple mechanisms converging on neural cell replication and differentiation. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated mechanisms contributing to the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos (CPF) on DNA synthesis, cell number and size, and cell signaling mediated by adenylyl cyc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slotkin TA,MacKillop EA,Ryde IT,Seidler FJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavone and isoflavone phytoestrogens are plant chemicals and are known to be competitive inhibitors of cytochrome P450 aromatase with respect to the androgen substrate. Aromatase is the enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen; therefore, these plant chemicals are thought to be capable of modifying the estrogen leve...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kao YC,Zhou C,Sherman M,Laughton CA,Chen S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Millions of people worldwide are living in areas where ozone (O3) concentrations exceed health standards (an hourly average of 235 micrograms/m3/0.12 ppm, not to be exceeded more than once per year). Ozone induces acute nasal inflammatory responses and significant epithelial lesions in experimental animals and humans....

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Calderon-Garcidueñas L,Rodriguez-Alcaraz A,Garcia R,Sanchez G,Barragan G,Camacho R,Ramirez L

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental health is a subject that has only relatively recently become prominent in the social consciousness. Even as its significance becomes known, finding ways to integrate the subject into education for primary and secondary students is difficult because of federal testing requirements under the No Child Left ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown VJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although public concern has focused on the environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the public health impact on a broad range of coastal communities is minimally known. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the acute level of distress (depression, anxiety), mechanisms of adjustment (coping, resil...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Grattan LM,Roberts S,Mahan WT Jr,McLaughlin PK,Otwell WS,Morris JG Jr

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a diamond polisher who developed occupational asthma as a result of prolonged exposure to various potent and well-recognized asthma-inducing agents, including cobalt dust. Although the patient was seen by various medical professionals during the initial course of his illness and given an early dia...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wilk-Rivard E,Szeinuk J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that female mosquitofish living downstream of a paper mill located on the Fenholloway River, Florida, have masculinized secondary sex characteristics, including altered anal fin development and reproductive behavior. Masculinization can be caused by exposure to androgens in the water or from an alte...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Orlando EF,Davis WP,Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats continuously exposed to NO2 at 0.04, 0.4, and 4.0 ppm for as long as 27 months were submitted to morphological observation and electronmicroscopic morphometry of the lung. At 4 ppm exposure for 9 months, bronchial epithelium showed typical proliferation, which progressed further at 18 months. At this stage, proli...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kubota K,Murakami M,Takenaka S,Kawai K,Kyono H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several examples of categorized data from epidemiological studies are analyzed to illustrate that more informative analysis than tests of independence can be performed by fitting models. All of the analyses fit into a unified conceptual framework that can be performed by weighted least squares. The methods presented s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Grizzle JE,Koch GG

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal exposure to carcinogens may contribute to the determination of susceptibility to cancer in two situations: a) exposure in utero of embryonal or fetal somatic cells to carcinogens, and b) prezygotic exposure of the germ cells of one or both parents to carcinogens. Epidemiological as well as experimental studi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yamasaki H,Loktionov A,Tomatis L

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lungs may be exposed to potentially toxic metabolites that are either formed in situ or which are present in the circulation. Therefore, pulmonary injury may be a prominent effect of certain classes of chemicals that undergo bioactivation in the body. The specific types of lung cells damaged may depend upon factor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Boyd MR

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of certain organic compounds in drinking water has led water treatment specialists to be increasingly concerned about the eventual risks of such pollutants to the health of consumers. Our experiments focused on the role of ozone and granular activated carbon in removing mutagenic compounds and precu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bourbigot MM,Hascoet MC,Levi Y,Erb F,Pommery N

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early-life exposure to lead is associated with deficits in neurodevelopment and with hematopoietic system toxicity. DNA methylation may be one of the underlying mechanisms for the adverse effects of prenatal lead on the offspring, but epigenome-wide methylation data for low levels of prenatal lead exposure a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wu S,Hivert MF,Cardenas A,Zhong J,Rifas-Shiman SL,Agha G,Colicino E,Just AC,Amarasiriwardena C,Lin X,Litonjua AA,DeMeo DL,Gillman MW,Wright RO,Oken E,Baccarelli AA

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma and lead poisoning are prevalent among urban children in the United States. Lead exposure may be associated with excessive production of immunoglobulin E, possibly increasing asthma risk and contributing to racial disparities. The objective of this study was to examine racial differences in the association of b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Joseph CL,Havstad S,Ownby DR,Peterson EL,Maliarik M,McCabe MJ Jr,Barone C,Johnson CC

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumonisin B1(FB1) is a fungal metabolite of Fusarium verticillioides (= F. moniliforme), a fungus that grows on many crops worldwide. Previous studies demonstrated that male BD IX rats consuming diets containing 50 ppm fumonisin B1 developed hepatocellular carcinomas. In our recent studies, diets containing FB1 at 50 ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Howard PC,Warbritton A,Voss KA,Lorentzen RJ,Thurman JD,Kovach RM,Bucci TJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prospective cohort studies constitute the major source of evidence about the mortality effects of chronic exposure to particulate air pollution. Additional studies are needed to provide evidence on the health effects of chronic exposure to particulate matter < or = 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zeger SL,Dominici F,McDermott A,Samet JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction-fragment-length polymorphism analysis was performed on several different types of human cancers, including carcinoma of the uterine cervix, neuroblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, stomach cancer, and small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), to determine the chromosomal loci of putative tumor-su...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yokota J,Sugimura T,Terada M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00