Criteria air pollutants and toxic air pollutants.

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：BACKGROUND:Environmental heat exposure is a public health concern. The impacts of environmental heat on mortality and morbidity at the population scale are well documented, but little is known about specific exposures that individuals experience. OBJECTIVES:The first objective of this work was to catalyze discussion o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kuras ER,Richardson MB,Calkins MM,Ebi KL,Hess JJ,Kintziger KW,Jagger MA,Middel A,Scott AA,Spector JT,Uejio CK,Vanos JK,Zaitchik BF,Gohlke JM,Hondula DM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When conducting research with American Indian tribes, informed consent beyond conventional institutional review board (IRB) review is needed because of the potential for adverse consequences at a community or governmental level that are unrecognized by academic researchers. OBJECTIVES:In this article, we re...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Harding A,Harper B,Stone D,O'Neill C,Berger P,Harris S,Donatuto J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical developments in the 21st century provide an unprecedented opportunity to gain a dynamic systems-level and human-specific understanding of the causes and pathophysiologies of disease. This understanding is a vital need, in view of continuing failures in health research, drug discovery, and clinical translati...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Langley G,Austin CP,Balapure AK,Birnbaum LS,Bucher JR,Fentem J,Fitzpatrick SC,Fowle JR 3rd,Kavlock RJ,Kitano H,Lidbury BA,Muotri AR,Peng SQ,Sakharov D,Seidle T,Trez T,Tonevitsky A,van de Stolpe A,Whelan M,Willett C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental occupational exposures might affect childhood cancer in the offspring through genetic changes in the ovum or sperm or through transplacental carcinogenesis. The 24 published epidemiologic studies of this association have all used case-control designs, with controls generally selected from birth certificates o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Savitz DA,Chen JH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collaborative studies were performed to develop a functional assay for fish-killing activity produced by Pfiesteria piscicida. Eight cell lines were used to screen organic fractions and residual water fraction by using a 3-[4, 5-dimethylthiazol-(2-4)]-diphenyltetrazolium bromide cytotoxicity assay. Diethyl ether and a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fairey ER,Edmunds JS,Deamer-Melia NJ,Glasgow H Jr,Johnson FM,Moeller PR,Burkholder JM,Ramsdell JS

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case control study of drinking water treatment practices and female cancer mortality was conducted in Wisconsin. Cancer deaths for 1972-1977 from 28 Wisconsin counties and noncancer deaths matched to cancer deaths on age, year of death and county of residence, were compared for characteristics of drinking water supp...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kanarek MS,Young TB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anogenital distance (AGD) in animals is a sensitive biomarker of fetal endocrine disruption and the associated testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS). However, AGD in human infants with cryptorchidism and hypospadias, which are potential manifestations of TDS during childhood, is not clearly described. OBJECT...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thankamony A,Lek N,Carroll D,Williams M,Dunger DB,Acerini CL,Ong KK,Hughes IA

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Aluminum lactate [Al(lact)3] (hydrophilic, hydrolytically unstable) and aluminum acetylacetonate [Al(acae)3] (lipophilic, hydrolytically stable) were tested as potential toxicants to rabbits upon IV administration both as aqueous solutions and as liposome suspensions. Both chemicals behaved as cardiotoxic agents when ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bombi GG,Corain B,Favarato M,Giordano R,Nicolini M,Perazzolo M,Tapparo A,Zatta P

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 11 September 2001 in New York City resulted in the massive release of pulverized dust and combustion products. The dust and smoke settled in the surrounding area, which encompassed a large residential community. We hypothesized that previously normal residents in the ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Reibman J,Lin S,Hwang SA,Gulati M,Bowers JA,Rogers L,Berger KI,Hoerning A,Gomez M,Fitzgerald EF

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system suitable for the detection of meiotic aneuploidy is described in which various different origins of the aneuploidy can be distinguished. Aneuploid meiotic products are detected as black disomic spores held in asci containing all the products of a single meiosis. Aneuploidy may result from nondisjunction or fr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bond DJ,McMillan L

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides used in agriculture may cause adverse health effects among the population living near agricultural areas. However, identifying the populations most likely to be exposed is difficult. We conducted a feasibility study to determine whether satellite imagery could be used to reconstruct historical crop patterns...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ward MH,Nuckols JR,Weigel SJ,Maxwell SK,Cantor KP,Miller RS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietic cells in bone marrow are vulnerable to cytotoxic substances. There are three types of erythroid precursors: cells that can take up Fe but do not proliferate (reticulocytes), those that can take up Fe and proliferate (normoblasts and pronormoblasts), and those cells that do not take up Fe but can prolife...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lee EW,Kocsis JJ,Snyder R

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:Human milk is a repository for certain classes of long-lived, fat-soluble environmental contaminant chemicals. Some members of this class, such as the chlorinated pesticides and the chlorinated biphenyls, can be expected to be present at chemical waste disposal sites. Analysis of samples of breast milk obtained from w...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Rogan W,Gladen B

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane toxicity originates from attack on biological targets by reactive intermediates derived from haloalkane metabolism by a hemoprotein, cytochrome P-450. Carbon-centered radicals and their peroxyl derivatives are most likely involved. The reactions of iron porphyrin--a model for cytochrome P-450--with various ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brault D

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome-specific composite DNA probes (chromosome painting) is a reliable and efficient method for detecting structural chromosome aberrations. Painting is now being used to quantify chromosome damage in many human populations. In one such study we evaluated 91 unexposed peop...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tucker JD,Moore DH 2nd

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concern persists over endocrine-disrupting effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human growth and sexual maturation. Potential effects of toxicant exposures on testosterone levels during puberty are not well characterized. OBJECTIVES:In this study we evaluated the relationship between toxicants...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schell LM,Gallo MV,Deane GD,Nelder KR,DeCaprio AP,Jacobs A,Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment.

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish and other seafood may contain organic mercury but also beneficial nutrients such as n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. We endeavored to study whether maternal fish consumption during pregnancy harms or benefits fetal brain development. We examined associations of maternal fish intake during pregnancy and maternal h...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Oken E,Wright RO,Kleinman KP,Bellinger D,Amarasiriwardena CJ,Hu H,Rich-Edwards JW,Gillman MW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review and summary is given of analytical, biochemical, and immunological studies made following an immunodiagnostic investigation which revealed significant decreases in the numbers, and changes in the functional integrity, of both T-and B-lymphocytes in a group of Michigan dairy farmers exposed to polybrominated b...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Roboz J,Greaves J,Bekesi JG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aquatic environment, diet is an important route of exposure for the common contaminant and procarcinogen benzo(a)pyrene (BaP). Dietary organisms vary in their BaP content and in contaminated areas often contain other xenobiotics including cytochrome P4501A inducers. This study examined the effect of dose and pr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kleinow KM,James MO,Tong Z,Venugopalan CS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although animal experiments have shown that cadmium exposure results in severe dental caries, limited epidemiologic data are available on this issue. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to examine the relationship between environmental cadmium exposure and dental caries in children 6-12 years of age. METHODS:We analyzed c...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Arora M,Weuve J,Schwartz J,Wright RO

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation is considered the detoxification pathway for inorganic arsenic (InAs), an established human carcinogen. Urinary speciation analysis is used to assess the distribution of metabolites [monomethylarsonate (MMA), dimethylarsinate (DMA), and unmethylated arsenic (InAs)], as indicators of methylation capacity. W...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hopenhayn-Rich C,Biggs ML,Smith AH,Kalman DA,Moore LE

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:The formamidines, a relatively new group of acaricide-insecticides, are novel both in their range of biological activities and in their mode of action, which is presently unknown. This paper is a review of the historical development, properties, structures, uses, and chemistry of this group of pesticides, with particu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hollingworth RM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the present understanding of asthma leads to the following conclusions: an elevated IgE is the principal risk factor in the development of childhood asthma; secondary exposure to a wide range of environmental agents (including indoor bioallergens) accounts for the variations in prevalence; prevalence (defi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bates DV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working toward gaining a better understanding of the human health impacts of exposure to complex air pollutant mixtures and the key features that drive the toxicity of these mixtures, which can then be used for future scientific and risk assessments. DATA SOURCES:...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Johns DO,Stanek LW,Walker K,Benromdhane S,Hubbell B,Ross M,Devlin RB,Costa DL,Greenbaum DS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concerns the testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and the estimation of gene frequency in the human leukocyte antigens (HLA) system. An extensive simulation study for both testing and estimation is given for investigating the performance of the projection method by Eguchi and Matsuura, which has a closed ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Matsuura M,Eguchi S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are toxic pollutants released by the World Trade Center (WTC) fires and various urban combustion sources. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is a representative member of the class of PAHs. PAH-DNA adducts, or BaP-DNA adducts as their proxy, provide a measure of chemical-specific genetic dama...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Perera FP,Tang D,Rauh V,Lester K,Tsai WY,Tu YH,Weiss L,Hoepner L,King J,Del Priore G,Lederman SA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00