The sources, fate, and toxicity of chemical warfare agent degradation products.

abstract：:The study reported here presents the results of an investigation of a marsh-cove ecosystem heavily contaminated by cadmium. The most contaminated aquatic sediments were dredged in 1972-73, but the resuspension of the sediments and recycle of water from the dredge spoil resulted in reestablishment of a large contaminat...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kneip TJ,Hazen RE

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to transportation noise is widespread and has been associated with obesity in some studies. However, the evidence from longitudinal studies is limited and little is known about effects of combined exposure to different noise sources. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this longitudinal study was to estimate the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pyko A,Eriksson C,Lind T,Mitkovskaya N,Wallas A,Ögren M,Östenson CG,Pershagen G

更新日期：2017-11-20 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：BACKGROUND:In male rodents, anogenital distance (AGD) provides a sensitive and continuous correlate of androgen exposure in the intrauterine environment and predicts later reproductive success. Some endocrine-disrupting chemicals can alter male reproductive tract development, including shortening AGD, in both rodents a...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Mendiola J,Stahlhut RW,Jørgensen N,Liu F,Swan SH

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of mixture effects of estrogenic agents is regarded as an issue of high priority by many governmental agencies and expert decision-making bodies all over the world. However, the few mixture studies published so far have suffered from conceptual and experimental problems and are considered to be inconclu...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Payne J,Rajapakse N,Wilkins M,Kortenkamp A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems of quantitating chrysotile in water by fiber count techniques are reviewed briefly and the use of mass quantitation is suggested as a preferable measure. Chrysotile fiber has been found in almost every sample of natural water examined, but generally transmission electron miscroscopy (TEM) is required beca...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Speil S

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a ubiquitous environmental toxicant that can accumulate in the placenta during pregnancy, where it may impair placental function and affect fetal development. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to investigate Cd-associated variations in placental DNA methylation (DNAM) and associations with gene expression...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Everson TM,Punshon T,Jackson BP,Hao K,Lambertini L,Chen J,Karagas MR,Marsit CJ

更新日期：2018-01-22 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:Extreme heat events (EHEs) are increasing in frequency in large U.S. cities and are responsible for a greater annual number of climate-related fatalities, on average, than any other form of extreme weather. In addition, low-density, sprawling patterns of urban development have been associated with enhanced s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Stone B,Hess JJ,Frumkin H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Untreated wastewater from the Mexico City basin has been used for decades to irrigate cropland in the Mezquital Valley, State of Hidalgo, Mexico. Excess irrigation water recharges the near-surface aquifer that is used as a domestic water supply source. We assessed the groundwater quality of three key groundwater sourc...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Downs TJ,Cifuentes-García E,Suffet IM

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlorpyrifos is one of the most widely used organophosphate insecticides in the United States. Although the toxicity of chlorpyrifos has been extensively studied in animals, the epidemiologic data are limited. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether agricultural chlorpyrifos exposure was associated with mortality, we...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lee WJ,Alavanja MC,Hoppin JA,Rusiecki JA,Kamel F,Blair A,Sandler DP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydraulically fractured wells produce 2-14 million liters of wastewater, which may contain toxic and radioactive compounds. The wastewater is predominantly disposed of using Class II injection wells. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and inject...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Silva GS,Warren JL,Deziel NC

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cofactors involved in respiratory tract carcinogenesis were studied in Syrian golden hamsters or in rats using benzo(a)pyrene as the carcinogenic agent. These factors included severe tissue damage induced by electro-coagulation, glass fibers administered by intratracheal instillation, acetaldehyde as irritant vapor, f...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Reuzel PG,Feron VJ,Spit BJ,Beems RB,Kroes R

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Butadiene is a major monomer in the rubber and plastics industry and is one of the highest-production industrial chemicals in the United States. Although not highly acutely toxic to rodents, inhalation of concentrations as low as 6.25 ppm causes tumors in mice. Butadiene is oncogenic in rats, but much higher expos...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Birnbaum LS

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal treatment of female mice with diethystilbestrol (DES) is known to induce ovary-independent persistent proliferation and cornification of vaginal epithelium. This irreversibly changed vaginal epithelium persistently expressed higher levels of c-jun and c-fos mRNAs, which was not altered by postpubertal estroge...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Iguchi T,Fukazawa Y,Bern HA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium has been implicated as a regulatory factor in many physiological and pathophysiological processes in the renal cell. Under physiological conditions, the cytosolic free calcium concentration is maintained at approximately 100 nM. Most of the releasable cell Ca2+ resides in the nonmitochondrial compartments. In ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Bonventre JV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its unique geology, Minnesota can be divided into four agricultural regions: south-central region one (corn, soybeans); west-central region two (wheat, corn, soybeans); northwest region three (wheat, sugar beets, potatoes); and northeast region four (forested and urban in character). Cancer mortality (1980-...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schreinemachers DM,Creason JP,Garry VF

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Building-related illness ranges from mild rhinitis to potentially life-threatening hypersensitivity pneumonitis and legionellosis. Sick-building syndrome, consisting of headache, mucous membrane irritation, and fatigue, may be present in 30% of all office workers. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma, and legionellosi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Welch LS

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Mass poisonings, called yusho and yu-cheng, occurred in western Japan in 1968 and central Taiwan in 1979, respectively. These occurrences were separately caused by ingestion of rice oils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated quaterphenyls. The tot...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Masuda Y

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality curves for groups of fasted male rats treated with single, oral doses of 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE, vinylidene chloride) were not monotonically increasing sigmoids, but were complex with maxima or extended plateaus in the region of dose between 100 and 700 mg of 1,1-DCE/kg. The exact shape was a function...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Andersen ME,Jenkins LJ Jr

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential danger of natural mercury accumulation in the diet of the Eskimo is evaluated through mercury levels determined in cord blood, placenta, maternal blood, hair, and milk of 38 maternal-infant pairs from Anchorage and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Although mercury levels are not discernably dangerous, trends t...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Galster WA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) represents a common neurodegenerative disorder. An estimated 2% of the U.S. population, age 65 and older, develops IPD. The number of IPD patients will certainly increase over the next several decades as the baby-boomers gradually step into this high-risk age group, concomitant wit...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Aschner M

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:On 15-16 September 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored the Conference on Preventable Causes of Cancer in Children. The conference was convened to examine rising trends in reported incidence of childhood cancer and the association of these trends with environmental exposures. This paper summarizes ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Carroquino MJ,Galson SK,Licht J,Amler RW,Perera FP,Claxton LD,Landrigan PJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humans have been exposed to fine and ultrafine particles throughout their history. Since the Industrial Revolution, sources, doses, and types of nanoparticles have changed dramatically. In the last decade, the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology has led to an increase of engineered nanoparticles with ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wick P,Malek A,Manser P,Meili D,Maeder-Althaus X,Diener L,Diener PA,Zisch A,Krug HF,von Mandach U

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole blood oxygen equilibrium curves (O2 ECs), blood buffer lines, and several hematologic properties were determined for adult guinea pigs exposed to 700 ppm methyl isocyanate (MIC) for 15 min. MIC inhalation effected a significant reduction of blood O2 affinity; the half-saturation pressure (P50) at 38 degrees C in...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Maginniss LA,Szewczak JM,Troup CM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is a condition in which persons experience negative health effects in multiple organ systems from exposure to low levels of common chemicals. Although symptoms experienced from particular chemicals vary across persons, they are generally stable within persons. The sensitivities ofte...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Gibson PR,Elms AN,Ruding LA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report is based on 30 deaths from chronic beryllium disease (CBD) in the United Kingdom with details of 19 autopsies. The majority were fluorescent lamp workers and machinists who died from respiratory failure. There were no cases of lung cancer. The survival times ranged from less than 1 to 29 years and was long...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Williams WJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Harmful algal blooms (HABs) produce potent neurotoxins that threaten human health, but current regulations may not be protective of sensitive populations. Early life exposure to low levels of the HAB toxin domoic acid (DomA) produces long-lasting behavioral deficits in rodent and primate models; however, the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Panlilio JM,Aluru N,Hahn ME

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00