Fertility and markers of male reproductive function in Inuit and European populations spanning large contrasts in blood levels of persistent organochlorines.

abstract：:The many anatomical, physiological, and biochemical differences among various mammalian species make it difficult to extrapolate carcinogenic potency data from animals to humans. The process is further complicated by the multistep origin of most malignant tumors in animals and humans due to the interaction of target c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slaga TJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decision analysis-a systematic approach to solving complex problems-offers tools and frameworks to support decision making that are increasingly being applied to environmental challenges. Alternatives analysis is a method used in regulation and product design to identify, compare, and evaluate the safety and...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Malloy TF,Zaunbrecher VM,Batteate CM,Blake A,Carroll WF Jr,Corbett CJ,Hansen SF,Lempert RJ,Linkov I,McFadden R,Moran KD,Olivetti E,Ostrom NK,Romero M,Schoenung JM,Seager TP,Sinsheimer P,Thayer KA

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the association between home use of solvents and paint and the risk of childhood leukemia. OBJECTIVES:In this case-control study, we examined whether the use of paint and petroleum solvents at home before birth and in early childhood influenced the risk of leukemia in children. ME...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Scélo G,Metayer C,Zhang L,Wiemels JL,Aldrich MC,Selvin S,Month S,Smith MT,Buffler PA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissolution of mineral fibers has been studied in simulated physiological fluids using a dynamic testing procedure. Fibers of different chemical composition and obtained by different processes with a mean diameter of about 1 micron, have been characterized with respect to their solubility under various test condit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lehuédé P,de Meringo A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined cytogeneticurine metabolite analysis approach was used to assess potential interactive effects between Fenarimol (FN), a fungicide, and trichloroethylene (TRI), a halogenated solvent. FN was demonstrated to selectively induce P450-2B1 isoforms in different organs of treated mice. Since the rate of metabolis...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hrelia P,Maffei F,Vigagni F,Fimognari C,Flori P,Stanzani R,Cantelli Forti G

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptions of endocrine disruption have largely been associated with wildlife and driven by observations documenting estrogenic, androgenic, antiandrogenic, and antithyroid actions. These actions, in response to exposure to ecologically relevant concentrations of various environmental contaminants, have now been est...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Guillette LJ Jr

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discoveries that emerging and re-emerging pathogens have their origin in environmental change has created an urgent need to understand how these environmental changes impact disease burden. In this article we present a framework that provides a context from which to examine the relationship between environme...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Eisenberg JN,Desai MA,Levy K,Bates SJ,Liang S,Naumoff K,Scott JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1966 and 1986, the childhood leukemia rate in Woburn, Massachusetts, was 4-fold higher than the national average. A multidisciplinary research team from MIT, which is being supported by the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program, has explored the possible importance of a temporal correlation between the period...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Durant JL,Chen J,Hemond HF,Thilly WG

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to transportation noise is widespread and has been associated with obesity in some studies. However, the evidence from longitudinal studies is limited and little is known about effects of combined exposure to different noise sources. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this longitudinal study was to estimate the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pyko A,Eriksson C,Lind T,Mitkovskaya N,Wallas A,Ögren M,Östenson CG,Pershagen G

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposures to mineral particles cause pneumoconiosis and other diseases, including cancer. Recent studies have suggested that reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play a key role in the mechanisms of disease initiation and progression following exposure to these particles. ROS-induced primary stimuli result i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vallyathan V,Shi X,Castranova V

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Chronic exposure of rodents to high dose levels of drugs, food additives and environmental chemicals frequently results in liver enlargement. Several of these compounds have been found to enhance the incidence of liver tumors in animals briefly exposed previously to hepatocarcinogens. Accordingly, it has been advanced...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kunz HW,Tennekes HA,Port RE,Schwartz M,Lorke D,Schaude G

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term increases in ambient air pollution have been associated with an increased incidence of acute cardiac events. We assessed the effect of inhalation exposure to concentrated ambient particles (CAPs) on myocardial ischemia in a canine model of coronary artery occlusion. Six mongrel dogs underwent thoracotomy fo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wellenius GA,Coull BA,Godleski JJ,Koutrakis P,Okabe K,Savage ST,Lawrence JE,Murthy GG,Verrier RL

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:We conducted experiments to determine whether diesel engine exhaust affects reproductive endocrine function in growing rats. The rats were assigned to three groups: a group exposed to total diesel engine exhaust containing 5.63 mg/m3 particulate matter, 4.10 ppm nitrogen dioxide, and 8.10 ppm nitrogen oxide; a group e...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watanabe N,Oonuki Y

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the prevalence of lead poisoning in children between 1 and 5 years of age living in a marginal area to the north of Mexico City and also includes an evaluation of sources of exposure to this metal in the same area. The results show that 67.5% of the children studied have blood lead (PbB) levels >...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： López-Carrillo L,Torres-Sánchez L,Garrido F,Papaqui-Hernández J,Palazuelos-Rendón E,López-Cervantes M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Substituted aromatic compounds can be metabolized in most species to N-acetylated derivatives that are themselves subject to further enzymatic transformations, including hydrolysis and N,O-acyltransfer. These proceses can either potentiate or ameliorate the biological responses to these N-substituted derivatives. De...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： King CM,Glowinski IB

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sertoli cell is the primary target for FSH action in the mammalian testis. These cells contain the majority of testicular plasma membrane receptors for this hormone. Receptor occupancy is directly correlated with a stimulation of adenylyl cyclase and a decrease in the activity of a cytoplasmic Ca++-sensitive cAMP ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tindall DJ,Tash JS,Means AR

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：: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：:A major concern of the chlorination of aquatic humic materials is the ubiquitous production of trihalomethanes. A large number of other chlorinated organic compounds, however, have been shown to be formed by chlorine's reaction with humic substances. In this study, humic material was concentrated from a coastal North ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johnson JD,Christman RF,Norwood DL,Millington DS

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of inhaled zinc oxide/hexachloroethane smoke (11,580 mg x min/m3) and intratracheally instilled zinc chloride (2.5 mg/kg body weight) have been studied in rat lung. The effects of subsequent treatment with 70% oxygen have been studied after both procedures. Both the inhalation of the smoke and instillation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown RF,Marrs TC,Rice P,Masek LC

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The mortality impacts of hot and cold temperatures have been thoroughly documented, with most locations reporting a U-shaped relationship with a minimum mortality temperature (MMT) at which mortality is lowest. How MMT may have evolved over previous decades as the global mean surface temperature has increase...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Åström DO,Tornevi A,Ebi KL,Rocklöv J,Forsberg B

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite experimental evidence, most epidemiologic studies to date have not supported an association between exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POP) and breast cancer incidence in humans. This may be attributable to difficulties in estimating blood/tissue POP concentration at critical time periods of ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Verner MA,Charbonneau M,López-Carrillo L,Haddad S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies and small studies in humans have shown that uranium is nephrotoxic. However, more information about its renal effects in humans following chronic exposure through drinking water is required. We measured uranium concentrations in drinking water and urine in 325 persons who had used drilled wells for drin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kurttio P,Auvinen A,Salonen L,Saha H,Pekkanen J,Mäkeläinen I,Väisänen SB,Penttilä IM,Komulainen H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human epidemiological and animal studies suggest that developmental exposure to contaminants that activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) lead to suppression of immune system function throughout life. The persistence of immune deficiency throughout life suggests that the cellular target of AHR activatio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Laiosa MD,Tate ER,Ahrenhoerster LS,Chen Y,Wang D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In these studies the effects of ingested arsenic (As(+5)) on hepatic heme biosynthetic capability and hemoprotein function in adult male rats were investigated. Animals exposed for 6 weeks to 0, 20, 40, or 85 ppm sodium arsenate in the drinking water suffered depression of hepatic delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synth...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Woods JS,Fowler BA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, mutagenicity testing was done on preselected compounds in a manner in which the testing laboratories knew the identity of the substances under test and the "expected" results, i.e., positive for compounds selected because of their carcinogenicity and negative for food additives. There is no completed s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Valcovic LR

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A critical question regarding the association between short-term exposure to ozone and mortality is the extent to which this relationship is confounded by ambient exposure to particles. OBJECTIVES:We investigated whether particulate matter < 10 and < 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(10) and PM(2.5)) i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bell ML,Kim JY,Dominici F

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00