Maternal fish consumption, hair mercury, and infant cognition in a U.S. Cohort.

abstract：:Rats were instilled intrabronchially with 1 mg UICC amosite suspended in 0.2 mL of filtered saline; control animals received the saline instillation only. Five animals from each group were killed on various days after instillation, up to day 128/129. Total retrieved cell counts and differential cell analysis were perf...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Oberdoerster G,Ferin J,Marcello NL,Meinhold SH

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of blood lead (B-Pb) concentration to blood pressure was investigated in men aged 55 to 75 years living in the Rome area, who had no history of exposure to lead in the workplace and who participated between 1989 and 1990 in an epidemiologic survey for coronary heart disease (New Risk Factor Project). O...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Menditto A,Morisi G,Spagnolo A,Menotti A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are developmental toxicants, but the impact of both maternal and paternal exposures on offspring birth size is largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE:We examined associations between maternal and paternal serum concentrations of 63 POPs, comprising five major classes of pollutant...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Robledo CA,Yeung E,Mendola P,Sundaram R,Maisog J,Sweeney AM,Barr DB,Louis GM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Exposure to environmental pollutants may contribute to the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). We determined the ZIP codes containing or abutting each of the approximately 900 hazardous waste sites in New York and identified the major contaminants in each. Three categories of ZIP codes were then distinguished...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sergeev AV,Carpenter DO

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Organophosphates in increasing amounts and wider varieties of molecular structure are being used to replace the organochlorine pesticides. It has been assumed that the organophosphates as a class would have a minimal chronic toxicity due to rapid hydrolysis and an unfavorable partitioning as regards to lipids. The phy...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Freed VH,Haque R,Schmedding D,Kohnert R

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing public pressure to minimize the use of vertebrates in ecotoxicity testing; therefore, effective alternatives to toxicity tests causing suffering are being sought. This report discusses alternatives and differs in some respects from the reports of the other three groups because the primary concern is w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Walker C,Kaiser K,Klein W,Lagadic L,Peakall D,Sheffield S,Soldan T,Yasuno M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we report a simple and efficient method for detecting nonsteroidal estrogens in a biologic sample. This method uses polyclonal antibodies to estradiol (E2) to immunoprecipitate these major biologically active steroidal estrogens, leaving behind the nonsteroidal estrogens, which are then detected in a c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Natarajan K,Overstreet JW,Rogers JM,Denison MS,Chen J,Lohstroh PN,McConnell DS,Lasley BL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that environmental exposure to synthetic estrogenic chemicals and related endocrine-active compounds may be responsible for a global decrease in sperm counts, decreased male reproductive capacity, and breast cancer in women. Results of recent studies show that there are large demographic varia...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Safe SH

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) suppressed pulmonary clearance of Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) and inhibited the phagocytosis of alveolar macrophages and their response to Listeria in the secretion of interleukin (IL)-1 beta, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and IL-12. In this report we exa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yin XJ,Schafer R,Ma JY,Antonini JM,Roberts JR,Weissman DN,Siegel PD,Ma JK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, 2.8 billion people rely on household solid fuels. Reducing the resulting adverse health, environmental, and development consequences will involve transitioning through a mix of clean fuels and improved solid fuel stoves (IS) of demonstrable effectiveness. To date, achieving uptake of IS has present...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rehfuess EA,Puzzolo E,Stanistreet D,Pope D,Bruce NG

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences in the neighborhood food environment may contribute to disparities in obesity. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the association of neighborhood food environments with body mass index (BMI) and obesity after control for neighborhood walkability. METHODS:This study employed a c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rundle A,Neckerman KM,Freeman L,Lovasi GS,Purciel M,Quinn J,Richards C,Sircar N,Weiss C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report results of the second phase of a larger study designed to evaluate the effects on the immune system of living near a Superfund site containing organochlorine pesticides, volatile organic compounds, and metals. Phase II was conducted to determine whether living near the site, consisting of six ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vine MF,Stein L,Weigle K,Schroeder J,Degnan D,Tse CK,Hanchette C,Backer L

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory animal diets for studies to determine the endocrine-disrupting potential of chemicals are under scrutiny because they can affect both assay control values and assay sensitivity. Although phytoestrogen content is important, we have previously shown that a phytoestrogen-rich diet and a phytoestrogen-free diet...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Odum J,Tinwell H,Tobin G,Ashby J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many mutagenic heterocyclic amines (HAs) have been isolated from cooked foods and pyrolysates of amino acids and proteins, and the carcinogenicity of 10 of these HAs in rodents and of 1 in monkeys has been reported. Quantification of these carcinogenic HAs in various kinds of cooked foods indicated that the level of 2...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wakabayashi K,Ushiyama H,Takahashi M,Nukaya H,Kim SB,Hirose M,Ochiai M,Sugimura T,Nagao M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noise exposure causes changes at different levels in human organs, particularly the cardiovascular system, where it is responsible for increasing heart rate, peripheral vascular resistance, and blood pressure. In this study, we evaluated the effect of noise exposure on DNA integrity and ultrastructure of rat cardiomyo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lenzi P,Frenzilli G,Gesi M,Ferrucci M,Lazzeri G,Fornai F,Nigro M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several organophosphate and organochlorine compounds, including pesticides commonly found in the Great Lakes basin, have the potential to induce immunotoxicity. Because of biomagnification and accumulation in the food chain, Great Lakes residents may inadvertently be exposed to these compounds and thus face increased ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomas PT

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, exposure of man to increasing amounts of metals has occurred rather generally from industrial contamination and variably from intake of dietary mineral supplements. Adverse effects of individual metals can be markedly altered by dietary levels of other essential and nonessential inorganic elements, es...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fox MR

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), the most abundant compound of the aminoimidazoazaarens (AIA) group of mutagens/carcinogens isolated from the crust of fried and broiled meat, was examined in freshly isolated hepatocytes from untreated rat, mouse, hamster, and guinea pig. Activa...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Alexander J,Fossum BH,Holme JA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of the Leadership Conference on Biomedical Research and the Environment, the Facilities Committee focused its work on the development of best environmental practices at biomedical research facilities at the university and independent research facility level as well as consideration of potential involvement...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Medlin EL,Grupenhoff JT

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Toxicology studies have shown adverse effects of developmental exposure to industrial phenols. Evaluation in humans is challenged by potentially marked within-subject variability of phenol biomarkers in pregnant women, which is poorly characterized. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to characterize within-day, between-da...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vernet C,Philippat C,Calafat AM,Ye X,Lyon-Caen S,Siroux V,Schisterman EF,Slama R

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Participants at the Napa Conference on Genetic and Molecular Ecotoxicology assessed the status of this field in light of heightened concerns about the genetic effects of exposure to hazardous substances and recent advancements in our capabilities to measure those effects. We present here a synthesis of the ideas discu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anderson S,Sadinski W,Shugart L,Brussard P,Depledge M,Ford T,Hose J,Stegeman J,Suk W,Wirgin I

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the estrogenicity of binary mixtures of the hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OHPCBs) 2,4,6-trichloro-4'-biphenylol (2,4,6-TCB-4'-OH) and 2,3,4,5-tetrachloro-4'-biphenylol and the pesticides endosulfan and dieldrin. The OHPCBs and pesticides were tested in both the MCF-7 focus assay and a competitive...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arcaro KF,Vakharia DD,Yang Y,Gierthy JF

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many thousand organic compounds are in common use and new ones introduced daily. With many of these materials, little is known about their toxic hazard. For years scientists have been investigating the relation of structure and properties to biological activity. Among the factors relating to toxicity are bioaccumulati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Freed VH,Chiou CT,Schmedding D,Kohnert R

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies and methods for assessing human exposure to chemicals, dietary and lifestyle factors, infectious agents, and other stressors provide an opportunity to extend the range of human health investigations and advance our understanding of the relationship between environmental exposure and disease. An ad hoc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Weis BK,Balshaw D,Barr JR,Brown D,Ellisman M,Lioy P,Omenn G,Potter JD,Smith MT,Sohn L,Suk WA,Sumner S,Swenberg J,Walt DR,Watkins S,Thompson C,Wilson SH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium resorbs alveolar fluid through combined action of sodium channels and the sodium pump, Na,K-ATPase. The lung often is exposed to hyperoxia in disease states and hyperoxia generates a mixture of reactive oxygen species. In vivo and in vitro exposure of rat lung and alveolar type II cells, respective...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wendt CH,Sharma R,Bair R,Towle H,Ingbar DH

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Calcium has been implicated as a regulatory factor in many physiological and pathophysiological processes in the renal cell. Under physiological conditions, the cytosolic free calcium concentration is maintained at approximately 100 nM. Most of the releasable cell Ca2+ resides in the nonmitochondrial compartments. In ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bonventre JV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Experimental tools for studying the complex steroidogenic interactions that occur between placenta and fetus during human pregnancy are extremely limited. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to develop a co-culture model to study steroidogenesis by the human fetoplacental unit and its disruption by exposure to environmenta...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hudon Thibeault AA,Deroy K,Vaillancourt C,Sanderson JT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00