Environmental practices for biomedical research facilities.

abstract：:Pheromones are substances emitted by one individual of a species and eliciting a specific response in a second individual of the same species. In moths (Lepidoptera) generally females lure males for mating by emission of a sex attractant pheromone comprised of either one or more components. Since 1966 the identificati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cardé RT

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the developing brain, serotonin (5HT) systems are among the most sensitive to disruption by organophosphates. OBJECTIVES:We exposed neonatal rats to daily doses of diazinon or parathion on postnatal days (PND)1-4 and evaluated 5HT receptors and the 5HT transporter in brainstem and forebrain on PND5, focu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slotkin TA,Tate CA,Ryde IT,Levin ED,Seidler FJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Potential public health effects associated with exposure to metal emissions from hazardous waste incinerators through noninhalation pathways were evaluated. Instead of relying on modeling the movement of toxicants through various environmental media, an approach based on estimating changes from baseline levels of expo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sedman RM,Polisini JM,Esparza JR

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The metabolome is a collection of exogenous chemicals and metabolites from cellular processes that may reflect the body's response to environmental exposures. Studies of air pollution and metabolomics are limited. OBJECTIVES:To explore changes in the human metabolome before, during, and after the 2008 Beiji...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mu L,Niu Z,Blair RH,Yu H,Browne RW,Bonner MR,Fanter T,Deng F,Swanson M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most serious consequences of cancer therapy is the development of a second cancer, especially leukemia. Several distinct subsets of therapy-related leukemia can now be distinguished. Classic therapy-related myeloid leukemia typically occurs 5 to 7 years after exposure to alkylating agents and/or irradiation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Larson RA,LeBeau MM,Vardiman JW,Rowley JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate problems with microfungal infestation in indoor environments, a multidisciplinary collaborative pilot study, supported by a grant from the Danish Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, was performed on 72 mold-infected building materials from 23 buildings. Water leakage through roofs, rising damp, and def...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gravesen S,Nielsen PA,Iversen R,Nielsen KF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzene has been known to be a bone marrow poison for almost a century. However, it was not until the last decade that benzene's carcinogenic potential was demonstrated by epidemiologic studies. The proposed regulation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to lower exposure levels of benzene in t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Infante PF,White MC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 12,110 male workers employed 1 or more years in eight styrene-butadiene polymer (SBR) manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada has been followed for mortality over a 40-year period, 1943 to 1982. The all-cause mortality of these workers was low [standardized mortality ratio (SMR) = 0.81] compar...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Matanoski GM,Santos-Burgoa C,Schwartz L

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental chemicals that function as estrogens have been suggested to be associated with an increase in disease and dysfunctions in animals and humans. To characterize chemicals that may act as estrogens in humans, we have compared three in vitro assays which measure aspects of human estrogen receptor (hER)-mediat...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Klotz DM,Beckman BS,Hill SM,McLachlan JA,Walters MR,Arnold SF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN) proposes to link environmental hazards and exposures to health outcomes. Statistical methods used in case-control and cohort studies to link health outcomes to individual exposure estimates are well developed. However, reliable exposure estimates for many contam...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mather FJ,White LE,Langlois EC,Shorter CF,Swalm CM,Shaffer JG,Hartley WR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to indoor air pollutants such as tobacco smoke and dust mites may exacerbate childhood asthma. Environmental interventions to reduce exposures to these pollutants can help prevent exacerbations of the disease. Among the most important interventions is the elimination of environmental tobacco smoke from the en...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Etzel RA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite evidence of atrazine toxicity in developing organisms from experimental studies, few studies--and fewer epidemiologic investigations--have examined the potential effects of prenatal exposure. OBJECTIVES:We assessed the association between adverse birth outcomes and urinary biomarkers of prenatal atr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chevrier C,Limon G,Monfort C,Rouget F,Garlantézec R,Petit C,Durand G,Cordier S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mental retardation: timing and thresholds; (italic)b(/italic)) endocrine dysfunction and developmental disabilities: dose and target implications; (italic)c(/italic)) attention-deficit disorder-ADHD and learning disabilities; and (italic)d(/italic)) new horizons: extending the boundaries. Support for the Rochester con...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Weiss B,Landrigan PJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative advantages and disadvantages and important design criteria for various exposure methods are presented. Five types of exposures are discussed: whole-body chambers, head-only exposures, nose or mouth-only methods, lung-only exposures, and partial-lung exposures. Design considerations covered include: air cleani...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Phalen RF

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are exposed to a large number of environmental genotoxic agents. These can increase the probability that somatic mutation will occur. The use of genotoxicity testing is essential for assessment of potential human toxicity so that hazards can be prevented. Cytogenetic monitoring of human populations exposed to c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Anwar WA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions of carcinogenic activity are made for 30 chemicals currently being assessed for rodent carcinogenicity by the U.S. National Toxicology Program. The predictions are based upon the chemical structure, the anticipated or reported mutagenicity, and the reported sub-chronic toxicity of each chemical. It is pred...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ashby J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National disparities in asbestos use will likely lead to an unequal burden of asbestos diseases. OBJECTIVES:As economic status may be linked to asbestos use, we assessed, globally, the relationship between indicators of national economic development and asbestos use. METHODS:For the 135 countries that have...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Le GV,Takahashi K,Karjalainen A,Delgermaa V,Hoshuyama T,Miyamura Y,Furuya S,Higashi T,Pan G,Wagner G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade much information has been published on the analysis of organics extracted from treated water. Certain of these organics have been shown to be by-products of the chlorination disinfection process and to possess harmful effects at high concentrations. This has resulted in increased interest in alter...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Watts CD,Crathorne B,Fielding M,Killops SD

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced transport of trace metal in porous media can occur in the presence of a ligand or "carrier" that has a high affinity for binding the pollutant, is dispersed and mobile in the soil environment, is recalcitrant with respect to microbial degradation, and is acceptable to the public. These aspects of the facilita...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chen JH,Czajka DR,Lion LW,Shuler ML,Ghiorse WC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in the emerging field of toxicogenomics is to define the relationships between chemically induced changes in gene expression and alterations in conventional toxicologic parameters such as clinical chemistry and histopathology. We have explored these relationships in detail using the rodent uterotroph...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Moggs JG,Tinwell H,Spurway T,Chang HS,Pate I,Lim FL,Moore DJ,Soames A,Stuckey R,Currie R,Zhu T,Kimber I,Ashby J,Orphanides G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metals have been mined and used since ancient times. The industrial era has seen a sharp increase in both the amounts and variety of metals that find applications in industry. The inadvertent release of metals, such as from fossil fuel consumption, also adds to the global burden. A number of catastrophic outbreaks hav...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Clarkson T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available data on binary interactions are yet to be considered within the context of mixture risk assessment because of our inability to predict the effect of a third or a fourth chemical in the mixture on the interacting binary pairs. Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models represent a potentially use...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Krishnan K,Haddad S,Béliveau M,Tardif R

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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:Exceptional aging, defined as reaching age 85 years, shows geographic inequalities that may depend on local environmental conditions. Links between particulate pollution-a well-recognized environmental risk factor-and exceptional aging have not been investigated. OBJECTIVES:We conducted a nationwide analysi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Baccarelli AA,Hales N,Burnett RT,Jerrett M,Mix C,Dockery DW,Pope CA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavone and isoflavone phytoestrogens are plant chemicals and are known to be competitive inhibitors of cytochrome P450 aromatase with respect to the androgen substrate. Aromatase is the enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen; therefore, these plant chemicals are thought to be capable of modifying the estrogen leve...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kao YC,Zhou C,Sherman M,Laughton CA,Chen S

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We synthesized the main findings from an international epidemiologic study on the impact of biopersistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human reproductive function. DATA SOURCES AND EXTRACTION:We used a database with interview and biological data from 2,269 women and their spouses, and 18 published core paper...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bonde JP,Toft G,Rylander L,Rignell-Hydbom A,Giwercman A,Spano M,Manicardi GC,Bizzaro D,Ludwicki JK,Zvyezday V,Bonefeld-Jørgensen EC,Pedersen HS,Jönsson BA,Thulstrup AM,INUENDO.

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the general population is exposed to carbaryl and other contemporary-use insecticides at low levels. Studies of laboratory animals, in addition to limited human data, show an association between carbaryl exposure and decreased semen quality. In the present study we explored whether environmental exposures to 1...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Meeker JD,Ryan L,Barr DB,Herrick RF,Bennett DH,Bravo R,Hauser R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated inhalation of silica dust can lead to inflammation and fibrosis in human lung and in experimental animal models. The alveolar macrophage is believed to play a pivotal role in this process. Numerous macrophage-derived growth factors, cytokines, and arachidonic acid metabolites have been shown to contribute to ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Koren HS,Joyce M,Devlin RB,Becker S,Driscoll K,Madden MC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00