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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOrganic Power A demonstration project conducted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service has found that diesel vehicles such as trucks, tractors, and buses can run more cleanly if organically based biodiesel is...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRelentlessly single-minded, microbes have tirelessly gone about the business of life since the earth first cooled, pretty much unremarked by humanity unless it is to be labeled for their sometimes negative effects on...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedChlorpyrifos is a moderately toxic organophosphate pesticide. Houses and lawns in the United States receive a total of approximately 20 million annual chlorpyrifos treatments, and 82% of U.S. adults have detectable...
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe terms "cumulative" and "cumulative effects" are becoming more widely used in environmental impact assessment. The popularity of the concept is understandable as our culture comes to recognize that solitary insults...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe effects of toxicants depend on the dose and the time in the life span when exposure occurs. The biology of adolescence is distinctive and provides opportunities for unique actions of toxicants both in terms of...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe used transgenic mice carrying the lacI reporter gene to study the mutagenesis potential of asbestos crocidolite. The animals were exposed by nose-only inhalation to an aerosol containing 5.75 mg/[m.sup.3] crocidolite...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMany compounds in the environment capable of acting as endocrine disruptors have been assayed for their developmental effects on morphogenesis; however, few studies have addressed how such xenobiotics affect physiology....
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of leukemia; benzene, an established leukemogen, is present in cigarette smoke. By combining epidemiologic data on the health effects of smoking with risk...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDangers in the Air We Breathe Although the air we breathe is necessary for life, certain factors may make this same air detrimental to our health. For instance, a seemingly endless list of compounds can be toxic at...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Long-Term Effects of Chlorpyrifos In the United States, termite treatments with chlorpyrifos, a widely used organophosphate pesticide, are currently applied about 20 million times per year to houses and lawns,...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAccording to the 1998 annual report of the Air Transport Association, U.S. airlines flew 423.3 billion passenger miles in 1987, a number that grew to 619.5 billion miles in 1998. According to the Federal Aviation...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAdipocyte Biology and Hormone Signalling J. M. Ntambi, ed. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2000, 300 pp. ISBN: 1-58603-002-7, $117 Animal Models of Neurological Disease II: Metabolic Encephalopathies and Epilepsies Alan A....
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA review of the literature indicated an association among high nitrate ingestion, methemoglobinemia, and pathologic changes in bronchi and lung parenchyma. The present study examined a possible correlation among...
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is supporting a multiyear research initiative examining genetic influences on environmental response. Proponents of this new initiative, known as the Environmental...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe NIEHS announces the availability of support for career development and training awards to increase the cadre of scientists working in areas of particular importance to the NIEHS. Mentored Patient-Oriented...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe intestinal absorption of the nephrotoxic environmental pollutant cadmium increases markedly when iron stores are depleted. This may be mediated by an up regulation of the recently identified mucosal transporter DMT1...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe 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...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the United States, childhood asthma morbidity and prevalence rates are the highest in less affluent urban minority communities. More than 80% of childhood asthmatics are allergic to one or more inhalant allergens. We...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn May 1999, a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had violated the U.S. Constitution when it strengthened regulations for ground-level ozone and particulate matter (PM). EPA...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA 37-year-old heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning mechanic developed respiratory, musculoskeletal, and central nervous system symptoms associated with a variety of odorous environmental chemicals. Organic disease...