Infectious disease and worldwide declines of amphibian populations, with comments on emerging diseases in coral reef organisms and in humans.

abstract：:We assessed exposure to dioxin-like compounds using chemical and bioassay analysis in different matrices in a female population. A total of 106 serum and 9 follicular fluid samples were collected from infertile women attending Centers for Reproductive Medicine in Belgium from 1996 to 1998. Major polychlorinated biphen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pauwels A,Cenijn PH,Schepens PJ,Brouwer A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of inhaled zinc oxide/hexachloroethane smoke (11,580 mg x min/m3) and intratracheally instilled zinc chloride (2.5 mg/kg body weight) have been studied in rat lung. The effects of subsequent treatment with 70% oxygen have been studied after both procedures. Both the inhalation of the smoke and instillation...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown RF,Marrs TC,Rice P,Masek LC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dose-response relationship of the benzene covalent interaction with biological macromolecules from rat organs was studied. The administered dose range was 3.6 x 10(7) starting from the highest dosage employed, 486 mg/kg, which is oncogenic for rodents, and included low and very low dosages. The present study was i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mazzullo M,Bartoli S,Bonora B,Colacci A,Grilli S,Lattanzi G,Niero A,Turina MP,Parodi S

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The autonomic nervous system plays a key role in maintaining homeostasis and responding to external stimuli. In adults, exposure to fine particulate matter ( PM ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cowell WJ,Brunst KJ,Malin AJ,Coull BA,Gennings C,Kloog I,Lipton L,Wright RO,Enlow MB,Wright RJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C60 fullerenes and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are projected to be used in medicine and consumer products with potential human exposure. The hazardous effects of these particles are expected to involve oxidative stress with generation of oxidatively damaged DNA that might be the initiating event i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Folkmann JK,Risom L,Jacobsen NR,Wallin H,Loft S,Møller P

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:We measured tumor-associated proteins (TAPs) and pollutants in blood, serum, and urine of 200 nonsmoking women 50-65 years of age, residing in the rural municipality of Peer or in Hoboken or Wilrijk, industrial suburbs of Antwerp, Belgium. Persons with occupational exposures or commuting to other towns were excluded. ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： van Larebeke NA,Bracke ME,Nelen V,Koppen G,Schoeters G,Van Loon H,Vlietinck R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, in conjunction with National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, hosted a conference, "Toxicogenomics through the Eyes of Informatics," in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, on 12-13 May 2003. Researchers around the world met to discuss how the application of bioinformatics tools, met...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Olden K,Call N,Sobral B,Oakes R

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the implications for human health, the toxicologist requires four sets of data: the results of toxicity and other studies in animals; quantitative data on actual or potential human exposure; whatever information is available on effects of exposure in man; and the statistical extrapolations from the dose-res...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Golberg L

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most air pollution in West Germany is caused by combustion products. Particulate organic matter released by incomplete combustion is suspected to contribute to the "urban factor" of lung cancer frequency in urban-industrial centers. The carcinogenic potential of single components, groups of compounds and total source ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pott F,Stöber W

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Green spaces have been associated with both health benefits and risks in children; however, available evidence simultaneously investigating these conflicting influences, especially in association with different types of greenness, is scarce. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to simultaneously evaluate health benefits and...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dadvand P,Villanueva CM,Font-Ribera L,Martinez D,Basagaña X,Belmonte J,Vrijheid M,Gražulevičienė R,Kogevinas M,Nieuwenhuijsen MJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research often suffers from overspecialization, a practice nurtured in academia and reinforced by funders. Indeed, investigators in household air pollution (HAP) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH), working in poor parts of the world, rarely interact despite having similar training and using similar met...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Clasen T,Smith KR

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo detection of free radicals on a quantitative basis is essential for an establishment of their role in membrane, protein, and cell and tissue damage. This article compares optical methods, including chemiluminescence, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and NMR methods for the study of free radicals and free ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Chance B,Gao G

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of questionnaires to predict children's exposure to pesticides was examined as part of the Minnesota Children's Pesticide Exposure Study (MNCPES). The MNCPES focused on a probability sample of 102 children between the ages of 3 and 13 years living in either urban (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) or nonurban ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Sexton K,Adgate JL,Eberly LE,Clayton CA,Whitmore RW,Pellizzari ED,Lioy PJ,Quackenboss JJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study to examine seasonal changes in residential dust lead content and its relationship to blood lead in preschool children. We collected blood and dust samples (floors, windowsills, and carpets) to assess lead exposure. The geometric mean blood lead concentrations are 10.77 and 7.66 microg/dL for the d...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yiin LM,Rhoads GG,Lioy PJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Organophosphate developmental neurotoxicity involves multiple mechanisms converging on neural cell replication and differentiation. OBJECTIVES:We evaluated mechanisms contributing to the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos (CPF) on DNA synthesis, cell number and size, and cell signaling mediated by adenylyl cyc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Slotkin TA,MacKillop EA,Ryde IT,Seidler FJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms governing the correlation between exposure to ultrafine particles and the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease remain unknown. Ultrafine particles appear to cross the pulmonary epithelial barrier into the bloodstream, raising the possibility of direct contact with the vascular endothe...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gojova A,Guo B,Kota RS,Rutledge JC,Kennedy IM,Barakat AI

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung burden analysis was performed on 126 autopsy cases of persons who died in New York City from 1966 through 1968. Of the 126 cases, 107 were probably non-occupationally exposed, judging by occupational history and asbestos body content of lung. Fifty-three of the 107 cases contained short chrysotile fibers/fibrils,...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Langer AM,Nolan RP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular activated carbon (GAC), in the presence of dilute aqueous hypochlorite solutions typical of those used in water treatment, was converted to a reagent capable of carrying out free-radical coupling reactions and other oxidations of dilute aqueous solutions of phenols. The products included biphenyls with chlori...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Voudrias EA,Larson RA,Snoeyink VL,Chen AS,Stapleton PL

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was considered that the fall in lung function seen after exposure to cotton dust may be attributable in part to the activity of arachidonic acid metabolites, such as leucotrienes as well as to the more established release of histamine by cotton dust. However, we found that cotton and barley dusts elicited poor rele...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Thomson TA,Edwards JH,Al-Zubaidy TS,Brown RC,Poole A,Nicholls PJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although a long latency period of toxicity after exposure to methylmercury (MeHg) is known to exist in humans, few animal studies have addressed this issue. Substantiation of delayed MeHg toxicity in animals would affect the risk evaluation of MeHg. OBJECTIVES:Our goal in this study was to demonstrate the e...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Yoshida M,Shimizu N,Suzuki M,Watanabe C,Satoh M,Mori K,Yasutake A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute exposures to isobutane, propane, F-12, and F-11 in concentrations of 250, 500, or 1000 ppm for periods of 1 min to 8 hr did not produce any untoward physiological effects as determined by the methods employed which included serial EKG's and continuous monitoring of modified V5 by telemetry during exposure. Repet...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stewart RD,Newton PE,Baretta ED,Herrmann AA,Forster HV,Soto RJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells offer an interesting model system for evaluating differentiation because the cells are pluripotent, thus resembling germ cells and embryonic stem cells, and because a number of agents have been defined that are capable of promoting the differentiation of these cells. This chapter examine...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Astigiano S,Sherman MI,Abarzúa P

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to inorganic arsenic (iAs) has been associated with increased risk of various forms of cancer and of noncancerous diseases. Metabolic conversions of iAs that yield highly toxic and genotoxic methylarsonite (MAsIII) and dimethylarsinite (DMAsIII) may play a significant role in determining the extent an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Valenzuela OL,Borja-Aburto VH,Garcia-Vargas GG,Cruz-Gonzalez MB,Garcia-Montalvo EA,Calderon-Aranda ES,Del Razo LM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies report a small but positive association between short-term increases in airborne particulate matter and small increases in morbidity and mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular disease in urban areas. However, the lack of a mechanistic explanation to link particle exposure and human healt...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Holian A,Hamilton RF Jr,Morandi MT,Brown SD,Li L

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:According to the 2007 National Research Council report Toxicology for the Twenty-First Century, modern methods (e.g., "omics," in vitro assays, high-throughput testing, computational methods) will lead to the emergence of a new approach to toxicology. The Salmonella mammalian microsome mutagenicity assay has...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Claxton LD,Umbuzeiro Gde A,DeMarini DM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A co-culture clonal survival assay was developed to measure the cytotoxicity of test chemical treatments to BALB/c-3T3 cells because the standard clonal survival assay using 200 wild type (WT) cells frequently overestimates chemical cytotoxicity when compared with identical treatment doses in high-density cultures. Th...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Matthews EJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sertoli cell is the primary target for FSH action in the mammalian testis. These cells contain the majority of testicular plasma membrane receptors for this hormone. Receptor occupancy is directly correlated with a stimulation of adenylyl cyclase and a decrease in the activity of a cytoplasmic Ca++-sensitive cAMP ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Tindall DJ,Tash JS,Means AR

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study on building-related respiratory disease and associated social impact in an office building with water incursions in the northeastern United States. An initial questionnaire had 67% participation (888/1,327). Compared with the U.S. adult population, prevalence ratios were 2.2-2.5 for wheezing, life...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Cox-Ganser JM,White SK,Jones R,Hilsbos K,Storey E,Enright PL,Rao CY,Kreiss K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an improved method for trapping carbon-centered radicals (.R) from the gas-phase to compare radical suites trapped from various tobacco smoke and model smoke systems. Using a nitroxide trap, 3-amino-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-pyrrolidinyloxy (3AP), on solid support, we trapped radicals directly from the gas phase, ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Flicker TM,Green SA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00