Polymers in contact with the body.

abstract：:A human lymphoblastoid cell line has been used to test for mutations caused by combustion-generated soot particles and their constituent components, which are substrate carbon-black and adsorbed condensate, principally in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). It was found that the mutagenicity of the PAH...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bolsaitis PP,Feitelberg AS,Dekermendjian V,Elliott JF,Sarofim AF,Thilly WG

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:THE APHENA (AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH: A Combined European and North American Approach) study is a collaborative analysis of multicity time-series data on the effect of air pollution on population health, bringing together data from the European APHEA (Air Pollution and Health: A European Approach) and U.S. N...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Samoli E,Peng R,Ramsay T,Pipikou M,Touloumi G,Dominici F,Burnett R,Cohen A,Krewski D,Samet J,Katsouyanni K

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to identify mental, behavioral, and cognitive disorders that may be triggered or exacerbated during heat waves, predisposing individuals to heat-related morbidity and mortality. DESIGN:Using health outcome data from Adelaide, South Australia, for 1993-2006, we estimated the effect ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hansen A,Bi P,Nitschke M,Ryan P,Pisaniello D,Tucker G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cap43 is a protein whose RNA is induced under conditions of severe hypoxia or prolonged elevations of intracellular calcium. Additionally, Ni and Co also induce Cap43 because they produce a state of hypoxia in cells. Cap43 protein is expressed at low levels in normal tissues; however, in a variety of cancers, includin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cangul H,Salnikow K,Yee H,Zagzag D,Commes T,Costa M

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1977 creates the need to reliably establish testing priorities because laboratory resources are limited and the number of industrial chemicals requiring evaluation is overwhelming. The use of quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) models as rapid and p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： McKim JM,Bradbury SP,Niemi GJ

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A literature review of experimental and human exposure studies of skin permeation and cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions evoked by chromium was carried out to provide a basis for making a risk assessment of chromium as a soil contaminant. In vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated that 1 to 4% of the applied dose of ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bagdon RE,Hazen RE

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) have carried out a number of laboratory animal carcinogenicity studies and presented the results of these experiments in a series of Technical Reports. This paper tabulates the results of the 327 NCI/NTP studies carried out to date on 308 di...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Haseman JK,Huff JE,Zeiger E,McConnell EE

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycol ethers (GE) are widely used organic solvents. Despite the potential neurotoxicity of several families of organic solvents, little is known about the impact of GE on the neurodevelopment of infants and children. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the relation between urinary concentrations of GE metabolites i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Béranger R,Garlantézec R,Le Maner-Idrissi G,Lacroix A,Rouget F,Trowbridge J,Warembourg C,Monfort C,Le Gléau F,Jourdin M,Multigner L,Cordier S,Chevrier C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been used as flame retardants and are becoming a ubiquitous environmental contaminant. Adverse effects in the developing brain are of great health concern. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the effect of PBDEs/hydroxylated PBDEs (OH-PBDEs) on thyroid hormone (TH) receptor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ibhazehiebo K,Iwasaki T,Kimura-Kuroda J,Miyazaki W,Shimokawa N,Koibuchi N

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty percent of hazardous waste sites in the United States are co-contaminated with organic and metal pollutants. Data from both aerobic and anaerobic systems demonstrate that biodegradation of the organic component can be reduced by metal toxicity. Metal bioavailability, determined primarily by medium composition/so...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sandrin TR,Maier RM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is ongoing discussion that inhaled nanoparticles (NPs, < 100 nm) may translocate from epithelial deposition sites of the lungs to systemic circulation. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS:We studied the disappearance of NPs from the epithelium by sequential lung retention and clearance and bronchoalveolar lavage (...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Semmler-Behnke M,Takenaka S,Fertsch S,Wenk A,Seitz J,Mayer P,Oberdörster G,Kreyling WG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few human studies have examined bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormones in men, and results are divergent. OBJECTIVES:We examined associations between urinary BPA concentration and reproductive hormones, as well as semen quality, in young men from the general popula...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lassen TH,Frederiksen H,Jensen TK,Petersen JH,Joensen UN,Main KM,Skakkebaek NE,Juul A,Jørgensen N,Andersson AM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) or to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) increases mouse and human peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) subtype activity, which influences lipid metabolism. Because cholesterol is the substrate from which testosterone is synthesized, exposure to...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Maisonet M,Calafat AM,Marcus M,Jaakkola JJ,Lashen H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies long have played a role in the understanding of the effects of the general environment and various occupational exposures on the occurrence of acute and chronic diseases of the lung. This article is an overview of epidemiologic study designs that have particular relevance to studies of environmen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tager IB

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of asbestos-induced human cancers is increasing worldwide, and considerable evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important mediators of these diseases. Our previous studies suggested that mitochondria might be involved in the initiation of oxidative stress in asbestos-expose...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Huang SX,Partridge MA,Ghandhi SA,Davidson MM,Amundson SA,Hei TK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of experiments is described in which operant methodology is used to study the effects of drugs on "learning." Emphasis is placed on the technique of repeated acquisition as a behavioral baseline for studying this type of transition state. In this technique, each subject is required to learn a new discriminati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thompson DM,Moerschbaecher JM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP507.]. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fann N,Kim SY,Olives C,Sheppard L

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although indoor residual spraying (IRS) with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and pyrethroids effectively controls malaria, it potentially increases human exposure to these insecticides. Previous studies suggest that prenatal exposure to these insecticides may impact human neurodevelopment. OBJECTIVES:...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Eskenazi B,An S,Rauch SA,Coker ES,Maphula A,Obida M,Crause M,Kogut KR,Bornman R,Chevrier J

更新日期：2018-04-06 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent findings suggest that maternal smoking during pregnancy may play a role in the development of metabolic alterations in offspring during childhood. However, whether such exposure increases the risk of developing similar metabolic alterations during adulthood is uncertain. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the as...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cupul-Uicab LA,Skjaerven R,Haug K,Travlos GS,Wilson RE,Eggesbø M,Hoppin JA,Whitworth KW,Longnecker MP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethene is, on a molar basis, a major urban air pollutant. It has been shown beyond doubt that a fraction of inhaled ethene is metabolized in mammals (including humans) via ethylene oxide, an electrophilic reagent that has been shown to be mutagenic and carcinogenic. To the extent that the linearity hypothesis for dose...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Törnqvist M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingestion is an important exposure route for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to enter the human body. Although the formation of hazardous PAH metabolites by human biotransformation enzymes is well documented, nothing is known about the PAH transformation potency of human intestinal microbiota. Using a gastroin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Van de Wiele T,Vanhaecke L,Boeckaert C,Peru K,Headley J,Verstraete W,Siciliano S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lead (Pb) exposure may influence the plasma concentration of homocysteine, a one-carbon metabolite associated with cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Little is known about the associations between Pb and homocysteine over time, or the potential influence of dietary factors. OBJECTIVES:We examine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bakulski KM,Park SK,Weisskopf MG,Tucker KL,Sparrow D,Spiro A 3rd,Vokonas PS,Nie LH,Hu H,Weuve J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the United States, most of the treated sewage sludge (biosolids) is applied to farmland as a soil amendment. Critics suggest that rules regulating sewage sludge treatment and land application may be insufficient to protect public health and the environment. Neighbors of land application sites report illne...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lowman A,McDonald MA,Wing S,Muhammad N

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean pollution affects marine organisms and ecosystems as well as humans. The International Oceanographic Commission recommends ocean health monitoring programs to investigate the presence of marine contaminants and the health of threatened species and the use of multiple and early-warning biomarker approac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Godard-Codding CA,Clark R,Fossi MC,Marsili L,Maltese S,West AG,Valenzuela L,Rowntree V,Polyak I,Cannon JC,Pinkerton K,Rubio-Cisneros N,Mesnick SL,Cox SB,Kerr I,Payne R,Stegeman JJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Metallothionein from livers of mice was isolated by gel chromatography and isoelectric focusing. One of two forms thus obtained contained 32 percent cysteine. This form, labeled in vitro with 109Cd, was injected intravenously in mice, and the distribution of 109Cd was studied. Animals killed after 4 hrs had over 80 pe...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nordberg M,Nordberg GF

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although from a societal point of view a modal shift from car to bicycle may have beneficial health effects due to decreased air pollution emissions, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and increased levels of physical activity, shifts in individual adverse health effects such as higher exposure to air pollu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johan de Hartog J,Boogaard H,Nijland H,Hoek G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00