Does an association between pesticide use and subsequent declines in catch of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) represent a case of endocrine disruption?

abstract：:This paper reports on the prevalence of lead poisoning in children between 1 and 5 years of age living in a marginal area to the north of Mexico City and also includes an evaluation of sources of exposure to this metal in the same area. The results show that 67.5% of the children studied have blood lead (PbB) levels >...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： López-Carrillo L,Torres-Sánchez L,Garrido F,Papaqui-Hernández J,Palazuelos-Rendón E,López-Cervantes M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Marcellus Shale is a vast natural gas field underlying parts of Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. Rapid development of this field has been enabled by advances in hydrofracking techniques that include injection of chemical and physical agents deep underground. Response to publ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Goldstein BD,Kriesky J,Pavliakova B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats, a single administration of acrylonitrile (vinyl cyanide) produces a rapidly occurring bilateral adrenal apoplexy. Structure-activity studies have shown that a close derivative, propionitrile (ethyl cyanide), causes duodenal ulcer without markedly affecting the adrenal glands. Prolonging the two-carbon chain o...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Szabo S,Reynolds ES

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen (Gal-GalNAc) represents a tumor-associated molecule, which is assumed to be one of the few chemically well-defined antigens with a proven association with malignancy. In order to analyze the role of the carbohydrate structure Gal-GalNAc for gastrointestinal tumors, we immunized Balb/c ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Dippold W,Steinborn A,Meyer zum Büschenfelde KH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread and persistent organochlorine (OC) contaminants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and pesticides, are known to have broad-ranging toxicities in wildlife. In this study we investigated, for the first time, their possible health effects on loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Nonlethal fat biopsi...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Keller JM,Kucklick JR,Stamper MA,Harms CA,McClellan-Green PD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have examined the association between home use of solvents and paint and the risk of childhood leukemia. OBJECTIVES:In this case-control study, we examined whether the use of paint and petroleum solvents at home before birth and in early childhood influenced the risk of leukemia in children. ME...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Scélo G,Metayer C,Zhang L,Wiemels JL,Aldrich MC,Selvin S,Month S,Smith MT,Buffler PA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of studying farmworkers is to better understand how their work environment, including exposure to pesticides, affects their health. Although a number of health conditions have been associated with pesticide exposure, clear linkages have yet to be made between exposure and health effects except in cases of...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： McCauley LA,Anger WK,Keifer M,Langley R,Robson MG,Rohlman D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenylphosphonothioate insecticides EPN and leptophos, and several analogs, were evaluated with respect to their delayed neurotoxic effects in hens and their environmental behavior in a terrestrial-aquatic model ecosystem. Acute toxicity to insects was highly correlated with sigma sigma of the substituted phenyl g...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Francis BM,Hansen LG,Fukuto TR,Lu PY,Metcalf RL

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there have been a significant number of publications on the benefits and challenges of community-based participatory research (CBPR). In this introduction we give an overview of three projects presented in this mini-monograph and highlight their commonalities and differences in developing community-uni...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Srinivasan S,Collman GW

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population-based studies have estimated health risks of short-term exposure to fine particles using mass of PM(2.5) (particulate matter

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Peng RD,Bell ML,Geyh AS,McDermott A,Zeger SL,Samet JM,Dominici F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a sensitive and accurate analytical method for quantifying methyleugenol (ME) in human serum. Our method uses a simple solid-phase extraction followed by a highly specific analysis using isotope dilution gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. Our method is very accurate; its limit of detect...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Barr DB,Barr JR,Bailey SL,Lapeza CR Jr,Beeson MD,Caudill SP,Maggio VL,Schecter A,Masten SA,Lucier GW,Needham LL,Sampson EJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Under a mandate from the U.S. Congress, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducts animal bioassays for carcinogenicity of potentially toxic chemicals to which the U.S. population might be exposed. Methyleugenol, a natural as well as synthesized substance, was no...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Schecter A,Lucier GW,Cunningham ML,Abdo KM,Blumenthal G,Silver AG,Melnick R,Portier C,Barr DB,Barr JR,Stanfill SB,Patterson DG Jr,Needham LL,Stopford W,Masten S,Mignogna J,Tung KC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system comprises a highly integrated network of multiple tissues and cell types with complicated interactions and effects. It is modulated by the endocrine and nervous systems and there is growing realization of its multifunctionality. The session focusing on immunologic effects of dioxin and related compou...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Birnbaum LS

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microscopic, ultrastructural, and morphometric study was made of the gills of tench (Tinca tinca, L.) subjected to acute experimental lead nitrate poisoning. Twenty-one adult tench were subjected to poisoning and a further 22 were used as controls. Lesions were characterized by the appearance of edema and epithelial...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Roncero V,Vincente JA,Redondo E,Gãzquez A,Duran E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hormonally active environmental agents have been measured among U.S. children using exposure biomarkers in urine. However, little is known about their variation by race, age, sex, and geography, and no data exist for newly developed biomarkers. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to characterize relevant, prevalent expo...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Wolff MS,Teitelbaum SL,Windham G,Pinney SM,Britton JA,Chelimo C,Godbold J,Biro F,Kushi LH,Pfeiffer CM,Calafat AM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiologic and experimental studies have reported a variety of health effects in response to ozone (O3) exposure, and some have indicated that certain populations may be at increased or decreased risk of O3-related health effects. OBJECTIVES:We sought to identify potential response-modifying factors to d...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Vinikoor-Imler LC,Owens EO,Nichols JL,Ross M,Brown JS,Sacks JD

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Alveolar macrophages were treated with carbon blacks and adsorbates in order to evaluate the biologic effect of adsorbate, adsorbent and adsorbate-adsorbent complexes. Their capacity to phagocytize a subsequent challenge via the Fc-membrane receptor was quantified. Phagocytosis was suppressed in a dose-related manner ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Jakab GJ,Risby TH,Sehnert SS,Hmieleski RR,Farrington JE

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:Uranium accumulates in bone, affects bone metabolism in laboratory animals, and when ingested in drinking water increases urinary excretion of calcium and phosphate, important components in the bone structure. However, little is known about bone effects of ingested natural uranium in humans. We studied 146 men and 142...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kurttio P,Komulainen H,Leino A,Salonen L,Auvinen A,Saha H

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have examined fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 μm; PM2.5) and preterm birth, but there is a dearth of longitudinal studies on this topic and a paucity of studies that have investigated specific sources of this exposure. OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to assess whether anthropogenic sources are associ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Pereira G,Bell ML,Lee HJ,Koutrakis P,Belanger K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implications of the multistage theory of carcinogenesis for evaluating the effect of exposure to carcinogens in the workplace are described. This theory predicts different patterns of excess risk related to duration of exposure, age at initial exposure, and follow-up time since exposure stopped, depending upon which s...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Brown CC,Chu KC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agricultural work and occupational pesticide use have been associated with increased risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), the most common form of kidney cancer. However, few prospective studies have investigated links to specific pesticides. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the lifetime use of individual pesticides an...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Andreotti G,Beane Freeman LE,Shearer JJ,Lerro CC,Koutros S,Parks CG,Blair A,Lynch CF,Lubin JH,Sandler DP,Hofmann JN

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hamsters were exposed to an aerosol of fused aluminosilicate particles (FAP) labeled with 57Co. Three groups of animals were given bronchopulmonary lavage, beginning at either 1 week, 1 month, or 6 months after exposure. Each treated group was lavaged eight times over a period of 25 days. Each lavage involved 10 salin...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Ellender M,Hodgson A,Wood KL,Moody JC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the physical environment as a determinant of health is a major concern reported by the general public as well as by many policymakers. However, it remains one of the health determinants for which few available measures or indicators are readily available. This lack of data is compounded by the fact that ev...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Elliott SJ,Eyles J,DeLuca P

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine disruption from environmental contaminants has been linked to a broad spectrum of adverse outcomes. One concern about endocrine-disrupting xenobiotics is the potential for additive or synergistic (i.e., greater-than-additive) effects of mixtures. A short-term dosing model to examine the effects of environmen...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Crofton KM,Craft ES,Hedge JM,Gennings C,Simmons JE,Carchman RA,Carter WH Jr,DeVito MJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous attempts to model disposition of 1,3-butadiene in mice and rats, parameter values for 1,2-epoxybut-3-ene metabolism were optimized to reproduce elimination of this gas from closed chambers. However, each of these models predicted much higher concentrations of circulating epoxybutene than were subsequently ...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Kohn MC,Melnick RL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The upward trend in industrial nations in the incidence of male genitourinary (GU) conditions may be attributed to increased exposure to endocrine disruptors. Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a brominated flame retardant, is one such suspected endocrine disruptor. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the relationship be...

journal_title：Environmental health perspectives

authors： Small CM,DeCaro JJ,Terrell ML,Dominguez C,Cameron LL,Wirth J,Marcus M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00