abstract：:At six paint factories in northern Taiwan, 325 workers participated in a detailed evaluation that included medical and occupational questionnaires, blood sampling, neurobehavioral tests, vibratory perception threshold tests, and thermal perception threshold tests. Because of cultural differences, a Chinese test batter...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Tsai SY,Chen JD,Chao WY,Wang JD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major predictors of health risk from pesticide exposure are quantity and toxicity of pesticides reaching end-users, field workers, and persons (including children) with casual and indirect exposures to field and food residues, drift, and contaminated groundwater. Past work in Israel and the Palestinian National Au...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Richter ED,Safi J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a longitudinal study, we assessed the relation between daily exposure to ambient air malodorous sulfur compounds from pulp production and experience of symptoms in a small population living in the vicinity of a pulp mill. Special emphasis was laid on exposure-response pattern, where the intensity of the symptoms of...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Marttila O,Jaakkola JJ,Partti-Pellinen K,Vilkka V,Haahtela T

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five preparations of alpha-quartz [Min-U-Sil 5 (MQZ), MQZ pretreated with hydrofluoric acid (HFMQZ), Chinese standard alpha-quartz (CSQZ), and two German samples, DQ-12 and F600] and two preparations of the crystalline silica polymorphs, cristobalite and tridymite, previously characterized for surface area and surface...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Daniel LN,Mao Y,Wang TC,Markey CJ,Markey SP,Shi X,Saffiotti U

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to criticisms raised regarding a case-control study of canine malignant lymphoma, the results of several ancillary analyses are reported. The case-control study demonstrated a significant association between risk for canine malignant lymphoma and the opportunity for exposure to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic ac...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Hayes HM,Tarone RE,Cantor KP

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBA-RS) and ethane, two markers of the lipid peroxidation process, was evaluated in rat lung and liver microsomal membranes incubated in the presence of either ferrous ions or a mixture of ferric ions and ascorbate. Microsomal fractions isolated from lung tiss...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Schweich MD,Lison D,Lauwerys R

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological and clinical studies suggest that inhalation of cobalt metal dust (Co) mixed with tungsten carbide particles (WC), but not of cobalt dust alone, may cause interstitial pulmonary lesions (hard metal disease). In previous experimental studies in the rat, we have demonstrated the greater acute pulmonary t...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Lasfargues G,Lardot C,Delos M,Lauwerys R,Lison D

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies evaluated symptom and pulmonary function responses of humans sequentially exposed to sulfuric acid aerosol and ozone. Thirty healthy subjects and 30 allergic asthmatic subjects underwent 3-hr exposures in an environmental chamber to 100 micrograms/m3 sulfuric acid and sodium chloride (control) aerosols (...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Frampton MW,Morrow PE,Cox C,Levy PC,Condemi JJ,Speers D,Gibb FR,Utell MJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study pregnancy outcome including development of childhood cancer in areas within Sweden with the highest radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. METHODS:Various Swedish health registries were used in order to identify all pregnancies and their outcome in Sweden according to the measured...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Ericson A,Källén B

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In whole animals, ozone acutely impairs pulmonary function, an effect which may be mediated by eicosanoids. This study determined if the lung itself, separated from blood components and the CNS, responds to ozone with increased eicosanoid production and decreased function. Wistar rat lungs were placed in a negatively ...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Joad JP,McDonald RJ,Giri SN,Bric JM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the adverse effects of urban levels of air pollution, rats were used as biological indicators in a chronic exposure experiment. Animals were housed for 6 months in the center of São Paulo (the largest South American town) and compared to controls kept for the same period in a clean area. Pollution l...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Lemos M,Lichtenfels AJ,Amaro Júnior E,Macchione M,Martins MA,King M,Böhm GM,Saldiva PH

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure and postexposure experiments have been recently performed in rats to evaluate the biological responses of inhaled refractory ceramic fibers (RCF) at different concentration levels. The lung burden data in the accessory lobe of the rat lung were collected during and after different exposure and postexp...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Yu CP,Zhang L,Oberdörster G,Mast RW,Glass LR,Utell MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses sampling and design considerations relevant to the estimation of exposure to organochlorine compounds in epidemiological studies. We consider exposures measured directly via biomarkers of exposure in the body. It is critical for the design, implementation, and evaluation of studies that epidemiolo...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Woodruff T,Wolff MS,Davis DL,Hayward D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pleural and peritoneal mesothelium is a major target in asbestos exposure where mesothelial cell proliferation, exfoliation, and neoplasia have been reported in workers and experimental animals. The objective of this study was to determine the role of pleural leukocytes in mesothelial cell damage caused by asbesto...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Li XY,Lamb D,Donaldson K

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The air pollution disasters in London in 1952, the Meuse valley in 1930, and in Donoroa, Pennsylvania, in 1948 made it clear that extremely high levels of particulate-based smog could produce large increases in the daily mortality rate. Recent studies of fluctuations in daily air pollution and daily mortality have rep...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Schwartz J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of methylmercury administration on adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A) and protein kinase C were investigated by determining their second messenger bindings ([3H]cAMP binding for protein kinase A and [3H]PDBu for protein kinase C) and enzymatic activities...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Saijoh K,Fukunaga T,Katsuyama H,Lee MJ,Sumino K

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minamata disease is methyl mercury intoxication from fish contaminated by a chemical factory in Minamata city. Based on the results of our regional survey, cardinal clinical features of the disease were clarified by a multivariant analysis of all symptoms in inhabitants in the polluted area. The clinical features were...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Igata A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air quality monitoring is part of the initial strategy in the pollution prevention program in Indonesia. Since 1978, the government of Indonesia has had a commitment to the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide air quality data for the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS Programme)--The WHO/UNEP Project,...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Tri-Tugaswati A

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which of the faster and slower large myelinated nerve fibers (alpha fiber group) are more sensitive to chronic lead exposure, the distribution of nerve conduction velocities (DCV) as well as conventional sensory nerve conduction velocity (SCV) were measured once a month for 20 and 11 months in two male le...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Sata F,Araki S,Murata K,Fujimura Y,Uchida E

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:n-Hexane is used in industry as a solvent for adhesive, dry cleaning, and vegetable oil extraction. In 1963, the first case of severe polyneuropathy suspected to be caused by n-hexane was referred to us. Case studies, animal experiments, and field surveys on n-hexane poisoning were conducted, and preventive measures l...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Takeuchi Y

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to develop a brief test battery to assess mental state for use in occupational health care settings. As a first step, we focused on the following three psychosocial aspects: ego state, behavioral pattern, and mood state which were considered to be closely related to mental state. To evaluate these paramet...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Kuboki T,Nomura S,Wada M,Akabayashi A,Nagataki M,Suematsu H,Yokoyama K,Araki S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic chemicals in the environment can cause a wide range of neurological disease. High-dose exposures to environmental neurotoxicants have produced encephalopathy in children ingesting chips of lead-based paint, blindness in persons who ingested methanol, blindness and ataxia in persons who consumed organic mercury, ...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Landrigan PJ,Graham DG,Thomas RD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative EEG of 99 workers occupationally exposed to styrene was analyzed and compared to exposure parameters. All of the workers came from reinforced plastics industry. The workplaces and factories were previously evaluated, and the exposure levels were known rather accurately. The exposure information form workp...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Matikainen E,Forsman-Grönholm L,Pfäffli P,Juntunen J

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP), pattern reversal visual evoked potentials (VEP), and brain stem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were studied in 109 healthy adults and in 88 patients with acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The upper limits for normal values of peak and interpeak latencies o...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： He F,Liu X,Yang S,Zhang S,Xu G,Fang G,Pan X

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three workers, ages 24 to 63, developed clinical toxic encephalopathy after exposure to neurotoxins and were studied by SPECT brain scans. Five were exposed to pesticides, 13 were acutely exposed to mixtures of solvents, 8 were chronically exposed to mixtures of hazardous wastes that contained organic solvents,...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Callender TJ,Morrow L,Subramanian K,Duhon D,Ristovv M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine possible risk factors for lung cancer among nonsmokers. The Illinois State Cancer Registry was used to identify all nonsmoking lung cancer cases diagnosed between 1985 and 1987. Subjects were classified as nonsmokers only if their medical record specifically stated that they ha...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Keller JE,Howe HL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year data set of daily counts of admissions to 79 acute care hospitals in Southern Ontario was analyzed in relation to concurrent measurements of air pollution and weather pooled over the same regions, using progressively more sophisticated statistical techniques. The diagnoses studied included a group of respirat...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Lipfert FW,Hammerstrom T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selikoff was among the first to emphasize the etiologic role of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure in lung cancer. Recent reports suggest that aggressive chemotherapy and radiotherapy combined with surgery have improved the prognosis in lung cancer. The outcome of 100 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSC...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Teirstein AS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in both the design of epidemiologic studies of exposure to toxic agents and the interpretation of the findings is to recognize and to accommodate the complex biologic assumptions that underlie population-based research. Environmental health research is grounded on a scientific foundation that blends ...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Guidotti TL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the elimination of PCBs in humans, PCB concentrations in serum from 165 capacitor manufacturing workers were measured twice within a 46-month interval (March 1976-December 1979). Use of PCBs at the facility was entirely eliminated in 1977. PCB congeners with lower chlorination (LPCBs--mainly tri- and tetrach...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Wolff MS,Fischbein A,Selikoff IJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terms medical surveillance and medical screening have sometimes been used interchangeably in the occupational medicine literature. Recently attempts have been made to redefine these as mutually exclusive, by nesting surveillance under screening or vice versa, by subsuming both under medical monitoring or periodic ...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Gochfeld M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether a population living on or adjacent to four sites of chromate production waste was measurably exposed to environmental chromium, spot samples of urine were collected along with wipe samples of household dust and lifestyle/activity interview data. Findings were compared to those from a control popul...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Stern AH,Freeman NC,Pleban P,Boesch RR,Wainman T,Howell T,Shupack SI,Johnson BB,Lioy PJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight rabbits were exposed to 0.7 +/- 0.4 mg/m3 Co2+ as CoCl2 and 1.2 +/- 0.7 mg/m3 Cr3+ as Cr(NO3)3 (group Co + Cr), eight to 0.6 +/- 0.5 mg/m3 Co2+ (group Co), and eight to filtered air (control group), for 4 months, 5 days/week, and 6 hr/day. All rabbits in group Co + Cr and group Co showed nodular aggregation of a...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Johansson A,Curstedt T,Rasool O,Jarstrand C,Camner P

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the mammalian skeleton as an endogenous lead source is unclear. This is due in part to difficulties in distinguishing mobilized skeletal lead from other endogenous and exogenous lead sources. Therefore, we have applied ultraclean stable lead isotope techniques to label skeletal and soft tissue lead compart...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Smith DR,Osterloh JD,Niemeyer S,Flegal AR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1976, the New York Giants professional football team relocated to the newly constructed Meadowlands Sports Complex (MSC) in East Rutherford, NJ. Between 1980 and 1987 four team members developed cancer: one case each of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, glioblastoma, angiosarcoma, and Hodgkin's disease. Because the surroundi...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Kraut A,Chan E,Lioy PJ,Cohen FB,Goldstein BD,Landrigan PJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic investigations were carried out on 50 workers exposed to stone dust in a stone crusher industry and on 25 control subjects never exposed to such dust. The frequency of chromosomal aberrations and sister chromatid exchanges in exposed individuals was significantly higher than that in controls (P less than 0...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Sobti RC,Bhardwaj DK

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mouse cells in culture, SiC whiskers (SiCW) and asbestos are similarly cytotoxic, disrupting cell membranes and killing cells. Both shorten cell generation time, increase the rate of DNA synthesis, increase total cell DNA content, and cause a loss in growth control often associated with malignant cellular transform...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Vaughan GL,Jordan J,Karr S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantification of dermal absorption of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from aqueous solutions is required to understand the potential health hazards resulting from skin exposure to these chemicals in contaminated water. Male Fischer 344 rats were dermally exposed (3.1-cm2 dorsal skin) to neat, one-third saturated, t...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Morgan DL,Cooper SW,Carlock DL,Sykora JJ,Sutton B,Mattie DR,McDougal JN

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report results of a multiple regression analysis examining associations between aggregate daily mortality counts and environmental variables in Los Angeles County, California for the period 1970 to 1979. Mortality variable included total deaths not due to accidents and violence (M), deaths due to cardiovascular cau...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Kinney PL,Ozkaynak H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been pointed out that, while an ecological study cannot determine whether radon causes lung cancer, it can test the validity of a linear-no threshold relationship between them. The linear-no threshold theory predicts a substantial positive correlation between the average radon exposure in various counties and t...

journal_title：Environmental research

authors： Cohen BL

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00