Effects of lead on the kidney: roles of high-affinity lead-binding proteins.

abstract：:Although most people are thought to receive their highest acute exposures to gasoline while refueling, relatively little is actually known about personal, nonoccupational exposures to gasoline during refueling activities. This study was designed to measure exposures associated with the use of an oxygenated fuel under ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Backer LC,Egeland GM,Ashley DL,Lawryk NJ,Weisel CP,White MC,Bundy T,Shortt E,Middaugh JP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to current data, the capacity to cause nonprogrammed or unscheduled cell proliferation in target tissues, a common characteristic of chemical carcinogens, may play a more important role in the development of tumors than does genotoxicity. This paper provides strong support for the validity of this conclusion...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yoshikawa K

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Many assays for oncogenic transformation have been developed ranging from those in established rodent cell lines where morphological alteration is scored, to those in human cells growing in nude mice where tumor invasiveness is scored. In general, systems that are most quantitative are also the least relevant in terms...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hall EJ,Hei TK

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traffic noise affects a large number of people, particularly in urbanized areas. Noise causes stress and annoyance, but less is known about the relationship between noise and depression. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the association of residential road traffic noise with depressive symptoms using 5-year follow-...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Orban E,McDonald K,Sutcliffe R,Hoffmann B,Fuks KB,Dragano N,Viehmann A,Erbel R,Jöckel KH,Pundt N,Moebus S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once a sign of modernization and growth, dams are often seen today as symbols of environmental and social devastation. Over 800,000 dams have been built worldwide to provide drinking water, flood control, hydropower, irrigation, navigation, and water storage. Dams do indeed provide these things,but at the cost of seve...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Joyce S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many instances pharmacokinetic modeling offers the best method of interpreting the significance to man of results obtained with laboratory animals but first we must have accurate models for our laboratory animals. A physiological pharmacokinetic model has been used to simulate the disposition of polychlorinated bip...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Matthews HB,Tuey DB,Anderson MW

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroethylene is an organic chemical that has been used in dry cleaning, for metal degreasing, and as a solvent for oils and resins. It has been shown to cause liver and kidney cancer in experimental animals. This article reviews over 80 published papers and letters on the cancer epidemiology of people exposed to ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wartenberg D,Reyner D,Scott CS

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread and persistent organochlorine (OC) contaminants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pesticides, are known to have broad-ranging toxicities in wildlife. In this study we investigated, for the first time, their possible health effects on loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Nonlethal fat biopsi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Keller JM,Kucklick JR,Stamper MA,Harms CA,McClellan-Green PD

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：:Some have hypothesized that community water containing sodium silicofluoride and hydrofluosilicic acid may increase blood lead (PbB) concentrations in children by leaching of lead from water conduits and by increasing absorption of lead from water. Our analysis aimed to evaluate the relation between water fluoridation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Macek MD,Matte TD,Sinks T,Malvitz DM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the large number of chemicals not yet tested for carcinogenicity but to which people are exposed, the limited number of human and animal cancer studies conducted each year, and the frequent need for a timely response, mechanistic data are playing an increasingly important role in carcinogen hazard ide...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Atwood ST,Lunn RM,Garner SC,Jahnke GD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article summarizes the basic facts about the measurement of ionizing radiation, usually referred to as radiation dosimetry. The article defines the common radiation quantities and units; gives typical levels of natural radiation and medical exposures; and describes the most important biological effects of radiati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cameron J

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although previous studies have reported negative associations between exposure to air pollution and cognition, studies of the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures in early childhood have been limited. OBJECTIVES:We sought to assess the role exposure to fine particulate matter ([Formula: see text]) du...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rivas I,Basagaña X,Cirach M,López-Vicente M,Suades-González E,Garcia-Esteban R,Álvarez-Pedrerol M,Dadvand P,Sunyer J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we summarize the results of a series of studies that measured the relative bioavailability (RBA) of lead in a variety of soil and soil-like test materials. Reference material (Pb acetate) or Pb-contaminated soils were administered orally to juvenile swine twice a day for 15 days. Blood samples were col...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Casteel SW,Weis CP,Henningsen GM,Brattin WJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although adverse effects of high temperature on mortality have been studied extensively in urban areas, little is known of the heat-mortality associations outside of cities. OBJECTIVE:We investigated whether heat-mortality associations differed between urban and nonurban areas and how urbanicity affected th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chen K,Zhou L,Chen X,Ma Z,Liu Y,Huang L,Bi J,Kinney PL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 11 September 2001 in New York City resulted in the massive release of pulverized dust and combustion products. The dust and smoke settled in the surrounding area, which encompassed a large residential community. We hypothesized that previously normal residents in the ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Reibman J,Lin S,Hwang SA,Gulati M,Bowers JA,Rogers L,Berger KI,Hoerning A,Gomez M,Fitzgerald EF

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique nonrespiratory functions of the lungs have become more apparent in recent years. The isolated perfused lung model offers many advantages over other methods for the study of pulmonary metabolism, xenobiotic disposition and the influence of interactions among agents of different physical forms. Detailed descr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Niemeier RW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Martineau et al. (2002) reported that St. Lawrence beluga (SLB) have high cancer rates. Unfortunately, errors in their interpretation of the data have led them to overstate the importance of cancer and its links to environmental sources. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hammill MO,Lesage V,Kingsley MC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research suggests perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) may be associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. OBJECTIVE:We conducted a population-based study of PFOA and PFOS and birth outcomes from 2005 through 2010 in a Mid-Ohio Valley community exposed to high levels of...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Darrow LA,Stein CR,Steenland K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For workers in the nuclear industry, the primary route for the entry of radioactive materials into the body is by inhalation, and the rate of clearance of particles from the pulmonary region of the lung is an important factor in determining radiation dose. It is the function of alveolar macrophages (AM) to maintain th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kellington JP,Gibson K,Buckle TM,Talbot RJ,Hornby SB

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:Environmental health and environmental quality issues along the U.S.-Mexico border have been of concern for several years. The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the presence of the maquiladoras (foreign-owned industries using imported raw materials) have intensified those concerns recently. Effo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carter DE,Peña C,Varady R,Suk WA

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Inhaled asbestos fibers may contribute to three-fourths of malignant mesotheliomas diagnosed in men and almost 40% of cases diagnosed in women. Bans on the manufacture and sale of amphibole asbestos fibers are expected to reduce the incidence of mesothelioma, but the long latency period from initial exposure to clinic...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tse LA,Yu IT,Goggins W,Clements M,Wang XR,Au JS,Yu KS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipocortins are structurally related, glucocorticoid-inducible proteins that inhibit phospholipase A2 (PLA2), thereby reducing the liberation of arachidonic acid from phospholipids and so limiting the synthesis of eicosanoid inflammatory mediators. This study is the first demonstration of one lipocortin, lipocortin 1 ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Smith SF,Tetley TD,Guz A,Flower RJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system suitable for the detection of meiotic aneuploidy is described in which various different origins of the aneuploidy can be distinguished. Aneuploid meiotic products are detected as black disomic spores held in asci containing all the products of a single meiosis. Aneuploidy may result from nondisjunction or fr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bond DJ,McMillan L

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological function of copper(I)-metallothionein is not well understood. The respiratory function of hemocyanin, a copper(I)-containing respiratory protein found in the hemolymph of many invertebrates, has been known a long time. However, the mechanism by which Cu(I) is inserted into the oxygen-binding site of ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brouwer M,Whaling P,Engel DW

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing cumulative effects of the multiple environmental factors influencing mortality remains a challenging task. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to examine the associations between cumulative environmental quality and all-cause and leading cause-specific (heart disease, cancer, and stroke) mortality rates. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jian Y,Messer LC,Jagai JS,Rappazzo KM,Gray CL,Grabich SC,Lobdell DT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00