Morphogenic role for acetylcholinesterase in axonal outgrowth during neural development.

abstract：:This report updates the risk assessment by Crump and Allen for benzene-induced leukemia that was based on a cohort exposed to benzene in the manufacture of Pliofilm. The present study derives new risk estimates using data from follow-up through 1987 (whereas the earlier assessment only had follow-up available through ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Crump KS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung epithelium resorbs alveolar fluid through combined action of sodium channels and the sodium pump, Na,K-ATPase. The lung often is exposed to hyperoxia in disease states and hyperoxia generates a mixture of reactive oxygen species. In vivo and in vitro exposure of rat lung and alveolar type II cells, respective...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wendt CH,Sharma R,Bair R,Towle H,Ingbar DH

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:U.S. chemical plants currently have potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities as terrorist targets. The possible consequences of these vulnerabilities echo from the tragedies of the Bhopal incident in 1984 to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and, most recently, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Findings from a 200...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lippin TM,McQuiston TH,Bradley-Bull K,Burns-Johnson T,Cook L,Gill ML,Howard D,Seymour TA,Stephens D,Williams BK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-3 (IL-3) and granulocyte/macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) are responsible for maintaining survival and stimulating growth of early dormant hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC). These cytokines exhibit extensive overlap, with GM-CSF supporting growth and differentiation of myeloid HPC. A charac...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Irons RD,Stillman WS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies demonstrate that infection, specifically pneumonia, contributes substantially to the increased morbidity and mortality among elderly individuals following exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM). This laboratory has previously demonstrated that a single inhalation exposure of Streptococcus pn...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Zelikoff JT,Schermerhorn KR,Fang K,Cohen MD,Schlesinger RB

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policy decisions regarding climate change mitigation are increasingly incorporating the beneficial and adverse health impacts of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies. Studies of such co-benefits and co-harms involve modeling approaches requiring a range of analytic decisions that affect the model out...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Remais JV,Hess JJ,Ebi KL,Markandya A,Balbus JM,Wilkinson P,Haines A,Chalabi Z

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods are described which permit the rapid isolation of multiple target macromolecules from the tissues of animals exposed to chemical mutagens. DNA and selected chromosomal proteins are isolated in a simple two step separation scheme. Isolated nuclei are dissolved in 3 ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Balhorn R,Mazrimas JA,Corzett M

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fine particulate matter (FPM) in ambient air causes premature mortality due to cardiac disease in susceptible populations. OBJECTIVE:Our objective in this study was to determine the most influential FPM components. METHODS:A mouse model of atherosclerosis (ApoE-/-) was exposed to either filtered air or con...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lippmann M,Ito K,Hwang JS,Maciejczyk P,Chen LC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies of the link between particulate matter (PM) concentrations and mortality rates have yielded a range of estimates, leading to disagreement about the magnitude of the relationship and the strength of the causal connection. Previous meta-analyses of this literature have provided pooled effect estima...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Levy JI,Hammitt JK,Spengler JD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microcystin-producing Microcystis bloom is a severe water problem in the world. Some reports indicate that chronic exposure to microcystin may result in liver damage in adults, but information on effects in children is limited. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship between microcystin exposure and live...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Li Y,Chen JA,Zhao Q,Pu C,Qiu Z,Zhang R,Shu W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binary, ternary, quaternary, and quintary interactions of a five-component mixture of carcinogenic environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using response surface analyses are described. Initially, lung tumor dose-response curves in strain A/J mice for each of the individual PAHs benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Nesnow S,Mass MJ,Ross JA,Galati AJ,Lambert GR,Gennings C,Carter WH Jr,Stoner GD

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In animals, some phthalates impair male reproductive development and function. Epidemiological studies have reported inconsistent evidence of associations between phthalates and markers of human testicular function. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to provide estimates of the effects of phthalate exposure on reproductiv...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Joensen UN,Frederiksen H,Blomberg Jensen M,Lauritsen MP,Olesen IA,Lassen TH,Andersson AM,Jørgensen N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term increases in ambient air pollution have been associated with an increased incidence of acute cardiac events. We assessed the effect of inhalation exposure to concentrated ambient particles (CAPs) on myocardial ischemia in a canine model of coronary artery occlusion. Six mongrel dogs underwent thoracotomy fo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wellenius GA,Coull BA,Godleski JJ,Koutrakis P,Okabe K,Savage ST,Lawrence JE,Murthy GG,Verrier RL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of high cadmium levels in the digestive gland (hepatopancreas) of the crab Cancer pagurus is reviewed and its possible significance to human health is discussed. Previous attempts to isolate this cadmium in its native form are briefly reviewed and the present method used in this laboratory to isolate cr...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Overnell J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of specific problems of occupational cancer in Spain is scarce. The environment of the workplace has improved over the last few years after a long period distinguished by bad working conditions, incomplete legislation, and insufficient safety measures and control. It has been estimated that 3,083,479 wor...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： González CA,Agudo A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, exposure of man to increasing amounts of metals has occurred rather generally from industrial contamination and variably from intake of dietary mineral supplements. Adverse effects of individual metals can be markedly altered by dietary levels of other essential and nonessential inorganic elements, es...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Fox MR

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycol ethers (GE) are widely used organic solvents. Despite the potential neurotoxicity of several families of organic solvents, little is known about the impact of GE on the neurodevelopment of infants and children. OBJECTIVES:We investigated the relation between urinary concentrations of GE metabolites i...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Béranger R,Garlantézec R,Le Maner-Idrissi G,Lacroix A,Rouget F,Trowbridge J,Warembourg C,Monfort C,Le Gléau F,Jourdin M,Multigner L,Cordier S,Chevrier C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylmercury (MeHg) exposure has been linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Paraoxonase 1 (PON1), an enzyme located in the high-density-lipoprotein (HDL) fraction of blood lipids, may protect against CHD by metabolizing toxic oxidized lipids associated with low-density liproprotein an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ayotte P,Carrier A,Ouellet N,Boiteau V,Abdous B,Sidi EA,Château-Degat ML,Dewailly É

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many pesticides in current use have recently been revealed as in vitro androgen receptor (AR) antagonists, but information about their combined effects is lacking. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the combined effects and the competitive AR antagonism of pesticide mixtures. METHODS:We used the MDA-kb2 assay to te...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Orton F,Rosivatz E,Scholze M,Kortenkamp A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral fibers and particulates represent one of the best documented, economically important, and ubiquitously occurring categories of human carcinogens. Yet, while a wealth of information exists concerning the mechanism of action of physical, chemical, and viral carcinogens, virtually nothing is known relative to the...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hart RW,Daniel FB,Kindig OR,Beach CA,Joseph LB,Wells RC

更新日期：1980-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:The relationship of fine particulate matter < 2.5 microm in diameter (PM(2.5)) air pollution with mortality and cardiovascular disease is well established, with more recent long-term studies reporting larger effect sizes than earlier long-term studies. Some studies have suggested the coarse fraction, particl...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Puett RC,Hart JE,Yanosky JD,Paciorek C,Schwartz J,Suh H,Speizer FE,Laden F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors. We focus on small-area analyses, encompassing disease mapping, geographic correlation studies, disease clusters, and clus...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Elliott P,Wartenberg D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that cell cultures of human proximal tubule (HPT) cells respond to ionic cadmium in a manner consistent with well-defined Cd(2+)-elicited responses reported for in vivo systems. However, one unique finding was that the transepithelial electrical resistance and tight junction sealing strands were...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hazen-Martin DJ,Todd JH,Sens MA,Khan W,Bylander JE,Smyth BJ,Sens DA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies and small studies in humans have shown that uranium is nephrotoxic. However, more information about its renal effects in humans following chronic exposure through drinking water is required. We measured uranium concentrations in drinking water and urine in 325 persons who had used drilled wells for drin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kurttio P,Auvinen A,Salonen L,Saha H,Pekkanen J,Mäkeläinen I,Väisänen SB,Penttilä IM,Komulainen H

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to certain phenols is ubiquitous because of their use in many consumer and personal care products. However, predictors of exposure have not been well characterized in most populations. OBJECTIVES:We sought to identify predictors of exposure and to assess the reproducibility of phenol concentrations...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Engel LS,Buckley JP,Yang G,Liao LM,Satagopan J,Calafat AM,Matthews CE,Cai Q,Ji BT,Cai H,Engel SM,Wolff MS,Rothman N,Zheng W,Xiang YB,Shu XO,Gao YT,Chow WH

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Environmental estrogens are of particular concern when exposure occurs during embryonic development. Although there are good models to study estrogenic activity of chemicals in adult animals, developmental exposure is much more difficult to test. The weak estrogenic activity of the environmental estrogen bisphenol A (...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Lemmen JG,Arends RJ,van der Saag PT,van der Burg B

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Experimental tools for studying the complex steroidogenic interactions that occur between placenta and fetus during human pregnancy are extremely limited. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to develop a co-culture model to study steroidogenesis by the human fetoplacental unit and its disruption by exposure to environmenta...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Hudon Thibeault AA,Deroy K,Vaillancourt C,Sanderson JT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00