An exploration of ethical issues in research in children's health and the environment.

abstract：:The remarkable frequency of uterine leiomyoma in the human population calls into question the potential for the participation of environmental factors in tumor etiology. Having been implicated in the dramatic rise in hormone-related cancers in recent years, endocrine disruptors are salient suspects in this pathogenesi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hunter DS,Hodges LC,Eagon PK,Vonier PM,Fuchs-Young R,Bergerson JS,Walker CL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At picomolar concentrations, lead activates protein kinase C (PKC). This activation has been implicated in the neurotoxicity of lead. No prior study has evaluated the association of PKC activity with neurobehavioral function in humans. The purpose of this study was to determine whether PKC activity is associated with ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hwang KY,Lee BK,Bressler JP,Bolla KI,Stewart WF,Schwartz BS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Miners inhaling respirable coal dust (CD) frequently develop coal workers' pneumoconiosis, a dust-associated pneumoconiosis characterized by lung inflammation and variable fibrosis. Many coal miners are also exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) components of diesel engine exhaust and cigarette sm...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ghanem MM,Battelli LA,Mercer RR,Scabilloni JF,Kashon ML,Ma JY,Nath J,Hubbs AF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arsenic (As) occurs as monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) in humans, and the methylation pattern demonstrates large interindividual differences. The fraction of urinary MMA is a marker for susceptibility to As-related diseases. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated the impact of polymorphisms in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Engström K,Vahter M,Mlakar SJ,Concha G,Nermell B,Raqib R,Cardozo A,Broberg K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors. We focus on small-area analyses, encompassing disease mapping, geographic correlation studies, disease clusters, and clus...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Elliott P,Wartenberg D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residents of Anniston, Alabama, live near a Monsanto plant that manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from 1929 to 1971 and are relatively heavily exposed. OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to determine the relationship, if any, between blood pressure and levels of total serum PCBs, several PCB ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goncharov A,Pavuk M,Foushee HR,Carpenter DO,Anniston Environmental Health Reseach Consortium.

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines behavioral changes in natural populations of wildlife associated with pollution. Although some changes such as lack of nest attentiveness and decreased nest defense have been noted, the results have not been consistent and have been difficult to relate to specific pollutants. Experimental studies i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Peakall DB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was considered that the fall in lung function seen after exposure to cotton dust may be attributable in part to the activity of arachidonic acid metabolites, such as leucotrienes as well as to the more established release of histamine by cotton dust. However, we found that cotton and barley dusts elicited poor rele...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomson TA,Edwards JH,Al-Zubaidy TS,Brown RC,Poole A,Nicholls PJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In an effort to decrease the rates of smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been proposed as an effective smoking cessation tool. However, little is known about their toxicological impacts. This is concerning given that e-cigarette use is perceived as less harmful...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Church JS,Chace-Donahue F,Blum JL,Ratner JR,Zelikoff JT,Schwartzer JJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a cohort study of the effects of chronic exposure to lead on pregnancy outcome and child development, lead concentrations in the umbilical cord and placental tissues (body and membranes) from 9 late fetal deaths, 23 preterm births, and 18 births associated with premature rupture of the amniotic membranes we...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baghurst PA,Robertson EF,Oldfield RK,King BM,McMichael AJ,Vimpani GV,Wigg NR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface IR (infrared) modes of crystalline and fumed (amorphous) silica particles, calcined at temperatures up to 1095 degrees C, have been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The ability of these same particles to lyse cells has been measured by a hemolysis protocol. The untreated crystalline and amor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pandurangi RS,Seehra MS,Razzaboni BL,Bolsaitis P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there have been a significant number of publications on the benefits and challenges of community-based participatory research (CBPR). In this introduction we give an overview of three projects presented in this mini-monograph and highlight their commonalities and differences in developing community-uni...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Srinivasan S,Collman GW

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental problems in population monitoring for genetic effects are twofold: the binomialized nature of the data and the lower power due to small risk of finding positive results. The binomial character is artificial, even forced, and can with advantage be replaced by more refined analysis, and by a focus on all...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Murphy EA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater contamination is a serious problem that is growing in the United States, but its true extent is not known and it is difficult to determine because of the complexities of contaminants, their transformation, and fate in groundwater systems. It is also difficult to predict their movement in groundwater. Since...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Patrick R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic are common environmental pollutants in industrialized countries, but their combined impact on children's health is little known. We studied their effects on two main targets, the renal and dopaminergic systems, in > 800 children during a cross-sectional European survey. Control and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： de Burbure C,Buchet JP,Leroyer A,Nisse C,Haguenoer JM,Mutti A,Smerhovsky Z,Cikrt M,Trzcinka-Ochocka M,Razniewska G,Jakubowski M,Bernard A

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:In this paper we give some examples of using databases of genotoxicity and carcinogenicity for quantitative and qualitative correlation studies between short-term tests and carcinogenicity. The quality of the databases is obviously important, but one of the major deficiencies of present databases is that they are too ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Parodi S,Malacarne D,Taningher M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable attention has been given to the relationship between levels of fine particulate matter (particulate matter < or = 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter; PM(2.5) in the atmosphere and health effects in human populations. Since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began widespread monitoring of PM(2.5) lev...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holloman CH,Bortnick SM,Morara M,Strauss WJ,Calder CA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of lime in the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), i.e., O2-., H2O2, and OH., from betel-quid components (extracts of areca nut and catechu) was investigated in vitro using a chemiluminescence technique and an assay for oxidative DNA damage involving analysis of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine. Of the var...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nair UJ,Obe G,Friesen M,Goldberg MT,Bartsch H

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：:The possible risk for human health arising from consumption of lead-polluted shellfish was suggested by experiments on the bioavailability for mice of a "biologically detoxified" form of the metal. In this work, young mice were fed with a mixed diet including mussels collected in a Pb-polluted area. Metal concentratio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Regoli F,Orlando E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously conducted a study to assess whether household exposures to tap water increased an individual's internal dose of trihalomethanes (THMs). Increases in blood THM levels among subjects who showered or bathed were variable, with increased levels tending to cluster in two groups. OBJECTIVES:Our goal...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Backer LC,Lan Q,Blount BC,Nuckols JR,Branch R,Lyu CW,Kieszak SM,Brinkman MC,Gordon SM,Flanders WD,Romkes M,Cantor KP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1289/EHP2580.]. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sagiv SK,Harris MH,Gunier RB,Kogut KR,Harley KG,Deardorff J,Bradman A,Holland N,Eskenazi B

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cigarette smoke and high-level occupational asbestos exposure produces a synergistic increase in the incidence of lung cancer; however, smoking does not affect the incidence of mesothelioma. Here we present the results of tests of two theories that have been proposed to explain this phenomenon; name...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sekhon HS,Keeling B,Churg A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although chemical exposure has been associated with reduced reproduction in certain North American fish, reptiles, and mammals, definitive cause-and-effect data are lacking in many instances. Because the increasing use and global transport of industrial chemicals pose significant risk to successful reproduction, metho...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hose JE,Guillette LJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microscopic, ultrastructural, and morphometric study was made of the gills of tench (Tinca tinca, L.) subjected to acute experimental lead nitrate poisoning. Twenty-one adult tench were subjected to poisoning and a further 22 were used as controls. Lesions were characterized by the appearance of edema and epithelial...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Roncero V,Vincente JA,Redondo E,Gãzquez A,Duran E

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:Historical aerial applications of the insecticide Matacil 1.8D provide an opportunity to look for potential effects of the endocrine disrupting compound 4-nonylphenol (4-NP) on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. Matacil 1.8D contained the carbamate insecticide aminocarb, with 4-NP as primary solvent. Between 1...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fairchild WL,Swansburg EO,Arsenault JT,Brown SB

更新日期：1999-05-01 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

abstract：:Man-made endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) present a threat to biodiversity, even in remote areas. To date, numerous wildlife species have been affected by EDCs in the environment, but it is likely that many more species are suffering effects that have not yet been reported. Impaired reproduction, damaged brain fu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lyons G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00