解剖学和形态学
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听力与言语-语言病理学
行为科学
心脏和心血管系统
细胞和组织工程学
临床神经病学
危重症监护医学
牙科,口腔外科和医学
皮肤病学
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血液学
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传染病
综合和补充性医学
医学伦理学
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abstract::Metals continually rank at the top of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's annual list of agents that pose the greatest hazard to the people of the United States. Metals aren't going away, either. They do not biodegrade, and they often concentrate in human and animal cells and tissue. Many metals are known human...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 新闻
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107a244
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Historical aerial applications of the insecticide Matacil 1.8D provide an opportunity to look for potential effects of the endocrine disrupting compound 4-nonylphenol (4-NP) on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations. Matacil 1.8D contained the carbamate insecticide aminocarb, with 4-NP as primary solvent. Between 1...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107349
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Biomarkers are desirable for quantitating human exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and for predicting potential health risks for exposed individuals. A number of biomarkers of ETS have been proposed. At present cotinine, measured in blood, saliva, or urine, appears to be the most specific and the most sensi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107s2349
更新日期:1999-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.107-1566267
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::We found an epidemic of juvenile hypothyroidism among a population of self-defined "downwinders" living near the Hanford nuclear facility located in southeast Washington State. The episode followed massive releases of 131I. Self-reported data on 60 cases of juvenile hypothyroidism (<20 years of age) among a group of 8...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107303
更新日期:1999-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107205
更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::We assessed chlorinated hydrocarbon contamination of mink and river otters on the Columbia and Fraser River systems of northwestern North America, in relation to morphological measures of condition. We obtained carcasses of mink and river otters from commercial trappers during the winters 1994-1995 and 1995-1996. Necr...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107141
更新日期:1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is the enzyme that hydrolyzes the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at cholinergic synapses and neuromuscular junctions. However, results from our laboratory and others indicate that AChE has an extrasynaptic, noncholinergic role during neural development. This article is a review of our findi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.99107s181
更新日期:1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::We evaluated predictors of plasma concentrations of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a group of 240 women, controls from a breast cancer case-control study nested in the Nurses' Health Study. We considered personal at...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.9910775
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::To assess levels of chlorinated contaminants in breast milk, we measured organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in breast milk samples collected in 1994 according to the World Health Organization protocol from 92 donors...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106797
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The integrated exposure uptake biokinetic model for lead in children was developed to provide plausible blood lead distributions corresponding to particular combinations of multimedia lead exposure. The model is based on a set of equations that convert lead exposure (expressed as micrograms per day) to blood lead conc...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s61513
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ecological risk assessment can be enhanced with predictive models for metal toxicity. Modelings of published data were done under the simplifying assumption that intermetal trends in toxicity reflect relative metal-ligand complex stabilities. This idea has been invoked successfully since 1904 but has yet to be applied...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s61419
更新日期:1998-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s61337
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Unlike laboratory animals, people are rarely exposed to a single hazardous chemical. However, most of the information documenting adverse human health effects from environmental and occupational contaminants has come from studies focused on exposure to single chemicals, and there is little information available on how...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s61263
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Exposure to low levels of chemicals indoors is often to a mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It is of interest to determine if the symptomatic and sensory responses can be attributed to a single chemical or to a mixture of chemicals. To determine if sensory or symptomatic responses differ with exposure to s...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106739
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::For decades, a number of guinea pig tests have been used to identify human contact allergens in workplace and consumer products, but these tests have limitations. In addition to using large numbers of test animals, they also provide only subjective measurements, because the allergic activity is measured by watching th...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 新闻
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106a488
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The combined effects of carbon monoxide and low temperature on daily variation in hospital admissions for congestive heart failure (CHF) were examined for a 4-year period in Chicago, Illinois. Medicare hospital admissions for CHF were analyzed as a function of the maximum hourly temperature, maximum hourly levels of c...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106649
更新日期:1998-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s51213
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Occupational exposures to mineral particles cause pneumoconiosis and other diseases, including cancer. Recent studies have suggested that reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play a key role in the mechanisms of disease initiation and progression following exposure to these particles. ROS-induced primary stimuli result i...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s51151
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have previously reported that rats are resilient to the hepatotoxic and lethal combination of chlordecone (CD) and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) during early postnatal development. The overall findings pointed to stimulated cell division and tissue repair mechanisms as the underlying cause of resistance. The objectiv...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106597
更新日期:1998-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We examined the estrogenicity of binary mixtures of the hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OHPCBs) 2,4,6-trichloro-4'-biphenylol (2,4,6-TCB-4'-OH) and 2,3,4,5-tetrachloro-4'-biphenylol and the pesticides endosulfan and dieldrin. The OHPCBs and pesticides were tested in both the MCF-7 focus assay and a competitive...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s41041
更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human exposure to carcinogenic Cr(VI) compounds is found among workers in a large number of professional groups, and it can also occur through environmental pollution. A significant number of toxic waste sites contain Cr as a major contaminant. In this paper we summarize our efforts to apply measurements of DNA-protei...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s4969
更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::As a consequence of contamination by effluents from local electronics manufacturing facilities, the New Bedford Harbor and estuary in southeastern Massachusetts is among the sites in the United States that are considered the most highly contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Since 1993, measures of intraute...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106513
更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Of 240 pesticides screened for carcinogenicity by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pesticide Programs, at least 24 (10%) produce thyroid follicular cell tumors in rodents. Thirteen of the thyroid carcinogens also induce liver tumors, mainly in mice, and 9 chemicals produce tumors at other sites. Some...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106437
更新日期:1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Differential CYP1A1 inducibility, reflecting variations in aromatic hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) affinity among inbred mouse strains, is an important determinant of environmental toxicity. We took advantage of the Ahr polymorphism in C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice to develop an oligonucleotide-hybridization screening approach f...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.106-1533118
更新日期:1998-07-01 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
pub_type:
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106867
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This article provides an overview of the problem of genetic susceptibility to childhood cancer with a particular emphasis on problems with ascertaining inherited cancer risk and the role of tumor-suppressor gene mutations in cancer predispositions. The association between neurofibromatosis type 1 and childhood leukemi...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106801
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have developed and applied a new measurement methodology to investigate dermal absorption of chloroform while bathing. Ten subjects bathed in chlorinated water while breathing pure air through a face mask. Their exhaled breath was delivered to a glow discharge source/ion trap mass spectrometer for continuous real-t...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106337
更新日期:1998-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::In 1976, near Seveso, Italy, an industrial accident caused the release of large quantities of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere, resulting in the highest levels of the toxicant ever recorded in humans. The contaminated area was divided into three zones (A, B, R) corresponding to decreasing...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106273
更新日期:1998-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A comparative analysis was performed of the phenotype and function of peripheral blood leukocytes of two age-matched cohorts of industrial workers in chemical plants, one of which was exposed occupationally to high concentrations of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Median actual TCDD burdens were 116 ng/kg ...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106701
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The industrial accident that occurred in the town of Seveso, Italy, in 1976 exposed a large population to substantial amounts of relatively pure 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. Extensive monitoring of soil levels and measurements of a limited number of human blood samples allowed classification of the exposed pop...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106625
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::In vitro liver preparations are increasingly used for the study of hepatotoxicity of chemicals. In recent years their actual advantages and limitations have been better defined. The cell models, slices, and mainly primary hepatocyte cultures, appear to be the most powerful in vitro systems, as liver-specific functions...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106511
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is growing public pressure to minimize the use of vertebrates in ecotoxicity testing; therefore, effective alternatives to toxicity tests causing suffering are being sought. This report discusses alternatives and differs in some respects from the reports of the other three groups because the primary concern is w...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type:
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106441
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Environmental pollution with the nephrotoxic metal cadmium is considered a potential health risk for the general population. In 1976 it was reported that the cadmium concentration in human kidney cortex in Sweden had increased in parallel with increasing levels in soil and grain during the twentieth century. Since the...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106175
更新日期:1998-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106127
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the aquatic environment, diet is an important route of exposure for the common contaminant and procarcinogen benzo(a)pyrene (BaP). Dietary organisms vary in their BaP content and in contaminated areas often contain other xenobiotics including cytochrome P4501A inducers. This study examined the effect of dose and pr...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106155
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Flavone and isoflavone phytoestrogens are plant chemicals and are known to be competitive inhibitors of cytochrome P450 aromatase with respect to the androgen substrate. Aromatase is the enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen; therefore, these plant chemicals are thought to be capable of modifying the estrogen leve...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.9810685
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epidemiological studies examining the association between exposure to tap water contaminants (such as chlorination by-products) and disease outcomes (such as cancer and adverse reproductive outcomes) have been limited by inaccurate exposure assessment. Failure to take into account the variation in beverage and tap wat...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1289/ehp.9810655
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A comprehensive effort was undertaken to identify articles demonstrating chemical hormesis. Nearly 4000 potentially relevant articles were retrieved from preliminary computer database searches by using various key word descriptors and extensive cross-referencing. A priori evaluation criteria were established including...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s1357
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dose influences mechanism; and over a wide range of doses, one can envision that mechanism will change with changing dose. This basic concept in toxicology is juxtaposed with the biologic importance of maintaining normal DNA methylation status to provide the focus of this paper. The idea that altered DNA methylation p...
journal_title:Environmental health perspectives
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1289/ehp.98106s1285
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00