Mitogen-activated protein kinase activation by oxidative and bacterial stress in an amphibian cell culture model.

abstract：:Chemoprotective phytochemicals exhibit multiple activities and interact with several cellular receptors, including the aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor (AhR). In this study we investigated the AhR agonist/antagonist activities of the following flavonoids: chrysin, phloretin, kaempferol, galangin, naringenin, genistein, ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zhang S,Qin C,Safe SH

更新日期：2003-12-01 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:Particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) has been consistently associated with preterm birth (PTB) to varying degrees, but roles of PM2.5 species have been less studied. OBJECTIVE:We estimated risk differences (RD) of PTB (reported per 106 pregnancies) associated with change in ambient co...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rappazzo KM,Daniels JL,Messer LC,Poole C,Lobdell DT

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Millions of people worldwide are living in areas where ozone (O3) concentrations exceed health standards (an hourly average of 235 micrograms/m3/0.12 ppm, not to be exceeded more than once per year). Ozone induces acute nasal inflammatory responses and significant epithelial lesions in experimental animals and humans....

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Calderon-Garcidueñas L,Rodriguez-Alcaraz A,Garcia R,Sanchez G,Barragan G,Camacho R,Ramirez L

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse pulmonary fibrosis is associated with bleomycin administration to humans. The sequential reactions of lung cells to this drug have now been investigated in mice following injection of 20 mg/kg bleomycin twice per week for 4 to 8 weeks. Cytoplasmic and subendothelial edema was first observed in large vessels an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Adamson IY

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo effects of xenoestrogens are of interest in relation to their potential health risks and/or beneficial effects on humans and animals. However, the apparent in vivo potency of the examined response can be confounded by a short half-life, and the metabolism of estrogens is very dependent on the nature of con...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Milligan SR,Balasubramanian AV,Kalita JC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striking similarities have been observed in a number of extrapulmonary responses of rodents to seemingly disparate ambient pollutants. These responses are often characterized by primary decreases in important indices of cardiac and thermoregulatory function, along with secondary decreases in associated parameters. For...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watkinson WP,Campen MJ,Nolan JP,Costa DL

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In different weather conditions, constituents and concentrations of pollutants, personal exposure, and biologic responses to air pollution may vary. In this study we assessed the effects of four air pollutants on mortality in both cool and warm seasons in Hong Kong, a subtropical city. Daily counts of mortality, due t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wong CM,Ma S,Hedley AJ,Lam TH

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:A meeting on Marine Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, was attended by approximately 125 scientists, directors and representatives from many of the country's marine b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bessey O

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tremor is one of the most common neurological signs, yet its etiology is poorly understood. Case-control studies suggest an association between blood lead and essential tremor, and that this association is modified by polymorphisms in the δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydrogenase (ALAD) gene. OBJECTIVE:We aimed t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ji JS,Power MC,Sparrow D,Spiro A 3rd,Hu H,Louis ED,Weisskopf MG

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to determine whether prenatal mercury exposure, including potential releases from the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, adversely affects fetal growth and child development. METHODS:We determined maternal and umbilical cord blood total mercury of nonsmoking women who delivered at ter...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lederman SA,Jones RL,Caldwell KL,Rauh V,Sheets SE,Tang D,Viswanathan S,Becker M,Stein JL,Wang RY,Perera FP

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is necessary but not sufficient to develop laboratory animal models in sensory behavioral toxicology for screening toxic substances and for the analysis of sensory impairment at threshold levels of stimulation. It is important to develop more thorough and quantitative tests of impairment which in their greater comp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stebbins WC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eliminating silicosis is a priority of the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. Prevalence is particularly high in developing countries. OBJECTIVES:We describe trends in silicosis among South African gold miners who had had an autopsy between 1975 and 2007 and quantify the co...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nelson G,Girdler-Brown B,Ndlovu N,Murray J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The types of biological response to an environmental agent can depend on dose, thus in this case a family of widely different dose-response relationships would be expected. For those situations where the magnitude of the effect may be determined on probabilistic grounds as a function of dose ("stochastic" model), no p...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Radford EP

更新日期：1981-12-01 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：:We present a model to plan a rational strategy for cancer prevention that has two main functions--assessment and intervention. The assessment function includes three main components: to identify populations at high cancer risk, which may be due to their ethnic group, occupational and environmental exposures, family hi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anton-Culver H

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Exposure to air pollution has been associated with higher C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, suggesting an inflammatory response. Not much is known about this association in pregnancy. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the associations of air pollution exposure during pregnancy with maternal and fetal CRP levels in ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： van den Hooven EH,de Kluizenaar Y,Pierik FH,Hofman A,van Ratingen SW,Zandveld PY,Lindemans J,Russcher H,Steegers EA,Miedema HM,Jaddoe VW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestos and silica are well-known fibrogenic dusts. However, there is no comprehensive understanding of the molecular and cellular events that lead to fibrosis as a consequence of asbestos or silica inhalation. Previous studies have shown that asbestos stimulates superoxide anion production in alveolar macrophages th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holian A,Kelley K,Hamilton RF Jr

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research conducted in recent years has increased public health concern about the toxicity of lead at low dose and has supported a reappraisal of the levels of lead exposure that may be safely tolerated in the workplace. In this article, which appears as part of a mini-monograph on adult lead exposure, we summarize a b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kosnett MJ,Wedeen RP,Rothenberg SJ,Hipkins KL,Materna BL,Schwartz BS,Hu H,Woolf A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological markers of intermediate health outcomes sometimes provide a superior alternative to traditional measures of pollutant-related disease. Some opportunities and methodologic issues associated with using markers are discussed in the context of exposures to four complex mixtures: environmental tobacco smoke and ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wilcosky TC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant public health concern about the potential effects of occupational exposure to toxic substances on reproductive outcomes. Several toxicants with reported reproductive and developmental effects are still in regular commercial or therapeutic use and thus present potential exposure to workers. Examp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lawson CC,Schnorr TM,Daston GP,Grajewski B,Marcus M,McDiarmid M,Murono E,Perreault SD,Schrader SM,Shelby M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congress has demonstrated interest in toxic compensation legislation, but not enough agreement to make significant progress. Advocates of reform claim that the legal system is heavily weighed against victims who seek compensation through the courts. Proposed reforms include a compensation fund and a cause of action in...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anderson RC

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:High cadmium exposure is known to cause bone damage, but the association between low-level cadmium exposure and osteoporosis remains to be clarified. Using a population-based women's health survey in southern Sweden [Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) ] with no known historical cadmium contamination, we investiga...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Akesson A,Bjellerup P,Lundh T,Lidfeldt J,Nerbrand C,Samsioe G,Skerfving S,Vahter M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consideration of needs for public health interventions and new research requires comparative assessments of the health benefits that are likely to result from alternative uses of limited regulatory and technical resources. This paper briefly examines regulatory and research priorities in the light of recent informatio...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hattis D

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurobehavioral toxicology is now established as a core discipline of the environmental health sciences. Despite its recognized scientific prowess, stemming from its deep roots in psychology and neuroscience and its acknowledged successes, it faces additional demands and challenges. The latter, in fact, are a product ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Weiss B,Elsner J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial meningitis causes a high burden of disease in the African meningitis belt, with regular seasonal hyperendemicity and sporadic short, but intense, localized epidemics during the late dry season occurring at a small spatial scale [i.e., below the district level, in individual health centers (HCs)]. I...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Woringer M,Martiny N,Porgho S,Bicaba BW,Bar-Hen A,Mueller JE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00