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- 1From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAfter late-night, last-minute negotiations, a voluntary international agreement to protect humans and the environment against harmful chemicals was adopted on 6 February 2006. Representatives from 140 countries,...
- 2From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedArsenic, a human carcinogen, is known to induce oxidative damage to DNA. In this study we investigated oxidative stress and As exposure by determining gene expression of OGG1, which codes for an enzyme, 8-oxoguanine DNA...
- 3From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedJust weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to newspapers and television stations in New York and to two U.S. senators on Capitol Hill....
- 4From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Recent studies indicate that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ozone standards may not protect sensitive individuals. In this study we examined respiratory effects of ozone in infants who may be...
- 5From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAs part of its efforts to curb the expansion of low-density, vehicle-dependent communities, the Sierra Club has released its first Guide to America's Best Development Projects. The guide spotlights 12 U.S. projects that...
- 6From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe evaluated animal and human toxicity data for perchlorate and identified reduction of thyroidal iodide uptake as the critical end point in the development of a health-protective drinking water level [also known as the...
- 7From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAsthma affects 1 in 8 school-aged children in industrialized countries, making it the most common chronic illness in this group. Now a meta-analysis of child asthma studies led by pharmaceutical scientist Fawziah Marra...
- 8From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRural residents can be exposed to agricultural pesticides through the proximity of their homes to crop fields. Previously, we developed a method to create historical crop maps using a geographic information system. The...
- 9From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedYet again, the humble soybean has undergone a further cycle of critical scrutiny. The extent to which soy foods and products--or, more relevantly, one of the constituent bioactive components, genistein--pose potential...
- 10From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Uranium miners are chronically exposed to low levels of radon and its progeny. We investigated whether radon exposure is associated with increased incidence of leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma in this...
- 11From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this study was to describe the exposure of nonsmokers in the U.S. population to secondhand smoke (SHS) using serum cotinine concentrations measured over a period of 14 years, from October 1988 through...
- 12From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA number of recent public advisories have warned women of childbearing age to limit intake of swordfish, shark, tuna, and other fish with high levels of mercury, since studies show that brain development in young...
- 13From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIt is controversial whether trichloroethylene (TCE) is a cardiac teratogen. We exposed chick embryos to 0, 0.4, 8, or 400 ppb TCE/egg during the period of cardiac valvuloseptal morphogenesis (2-3.3 days' incubation)....
- 14From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe UN General Assembly has unanimously selected Achim Steiner of Germany to succeed Klaus Topfer as the fifth executive director of UNEP. Steiner is presently director-general of the World Conservation Union, the...
- 15From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE: Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) has been linked to respiratory diseases in people living in urban communities. The mechanism by which PM produces these diseases is not clear. We hypothesized that...
- 16From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMany older homes are equipped with mercury-containing gas regulators that reduce the pressure of natural gas in the mains to the low pressure used in home gas piping. Removal of these regulators can result in elemental...
- 17From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPolychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a broad group of chemicals that includes 209 aromatic chlorinated hydrocarbons used for products ranging from fluorescent light fixtures to coolant fluids inside parts of consumer...
- 18From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedNearly 10 years ago, researchers with the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) began a complex set of experiments in rats to determine whether exposure to estrogenic...
- 19From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedTo reveal the effects of cadmium exposure on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, we examined the expression and function of 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein (Grp78), an ER-resident molecular chaperone, in...
- 20From: Environmental Health Perspectives. (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAlthough biomonitoring has been used in many occupational and environmental health and exposure studies, we are only beginning to understand the complexities and uncertainties involved with the biomonitoring...