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Superfund Basic Research Program

Isaac I. Wirgin

New York University School of Medicine
Department of Environmental Medicine
SLF 254B
57 Old Forge Road
Tuxedo, NY 10987
Phone: 845-731-3548
Fax: 845-351-5472
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Projects

Research Briefs

Superfund Sites

Diamond Alkali Co.

  • New York University School of Medicine: Mechanisms of Resistance of Aquatic Vertebrate Populations to Mixtures of Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Metal Contaminants

Publications

2006
  • Roy, Nirmal K., Simon C. Courtenay, R. Christopher Chambers, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2006. Characterization of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor and a comparison of its expression in Atlantic tomcod from resistant and sensitive populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. (http://etc.allenpress.com/entconline/?request =index-html) Exit NIEHS Website 25(2):560-571.
  • Wirgin, Isaac I., J.S. Weis, and Anne E. McElroy. 2006. Physiological and genetic aspects of toxicity in Hudson River species. Chapter 30 in: The Hudson River Estuary. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. pp.441-464.
  • Yuan, Zhanpeng, Simon C. Courtenay, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2006. Comparison of hepatic and extra hepatic induction of cytochrome P4501A by graded doses of aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists in Atlantic tomcod from two populations. Aquatic Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 0166445X) Exit NIEHS Website 76(3-4):306-320.
  • Yuan, Zhanpeng, Simon C. Courtenay, R. Christopher Chambers, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2006. Evidence of spatially extensive resistance to PCBs in an anadromous fish of the Hudson River. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(1):77-84.
2005
  • Roy, Nirmal K. and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2005. Characterization of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor and a comparison of its expression in Atlantic tomcod from resistant and sensitive populations. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. (http://etc.allenpress.com/entconline/?request =index-html) Exit NIEHS Website 25(2):560-571.
  • Sorrentino, Claudio, Nirmal K. Roy, Simon C. Courtenay, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2005. Co-exposure to metals modulates CYP1A1 mRNA inducibility in Atlantic tomcod Microgadus tomcod from two populations. Aquatic Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 0166445X) Exit NIEHS Website 75(3):238-252.
  • Wirgin, Isaac I. and R. Christopher Chambers. 2005. Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod): A model species for the response of Hudson River fish to toxicants. In: Hudson River Fishes and their Environment. (John R. Waldman, K.E. Limburg, and D. Strayer, eds). Amer. Fish. Soc,
  • Wirgin, Isaac I., Cheryl Grunwald, Erik Carlson, Joseph Stabile, Douglas L. Peterson, and John R. Waldman. 2005. Range-wide population structure of shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum based on sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA control region. Estuaries. (http://estuaries.olemiss.edu/) Exit NIEHS Website 28(3):406-421.
2004
  • Couillard, Catherine M., Isaac I. Wirgin, Michel Lebeuf, and Benoit Legare. 2004. Reduction of cytochrome P4501A with age in Atlantic tomcod from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada: relationship with emaciation and possible effect of contamination. Aquatic Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 0166445X) Exit NIEHS Website 68(3):233-247.
  • Fernandez, Marc P., Michael G. Ikonomou, Simon C. Courtenay, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2004. Spatial variation in hepatic levels and patterns of PCBs and PCDD/Fs among young-of-the-year and adult Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) in the Hudson River estuary. Environmental Science and Technology. (http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/) Exit NIEHS Website 38(4):976-983.
  • Sorrentino, Claudio, Nirmal K. Roy, R. Christopher Chambers, Simon C. Courtenay, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2004. B[a]P-DNA binding in early life-stages of Atlantic tomcod: population differences and chromium modulation. Marine Environmental Research. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 01411136) Exit NIEHS Website 58(2-5):383-388.
  • Wirgin, Isaac I. and John R. Waldman. 2004. Resistance to contaminants in North American fish populations. Mutation Research. (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescr iption.cws_home/522820/description#descriptio n) Exit NIEHS Website 552(1-2):73-100.
2002
  • Roy, Nirmal K., Simon C. Courtenay, Grace Maxwell, Zhanpeng Yuan, R. Christopher Chambers, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2002. Cytochrome P4501A1 is induced by PCB 77 and benzo[a]pyrene treatment but not by exposure to the Hudson River environment in Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) post-yolk sac larvae. Biomarkers. (http://tandf.catchword.com/titles/1354750x.ht m) Exit NIEHS Website 7(2):162-173.
2001
  • Roy, Nirmal K., Simon C. Courtenay, Zhanpeng Yuan, M. Ikonomou, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2001. An evaluation of the etiology of reduced CYP1A1 messenger RNA expression in the Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson River, New York, USA, using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction analysis. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. (http://etc.allenpress.com/entconline/?request =index-html) Exit NIEHS Website 20:1022-1030.
  • Walsh, M.G., M.B. Bain, T. Squiers, John R. Waldman, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2001. Morphological and genetic variation among shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum from adjacent and distant rivers. Estuaries. (http://estuaries.olemiss.edu/) Exit NIEHS Website 24:41-48.
  • Wirgin, Isaac I., T. Oppermann, and Joseph Stabile. 2001. Genetic divergence of robust redhorse Moxostoma robustum (Cypriniformes Catostomidae) from the Oconee River and the Savannah River based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences. Copeia. 526-530.
  • Yuan, Zhanpeng, Michael Wirgin, Simon C. Courtenay, Michael G. Ikonomou, and Isaac I. Wirgin. 2001. Is hepatic cytochrome P4501A1 expression predictive of hepatic burdens of dioxins, furans, and PCBs in Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson River estuary?. Aquatic Toxicology. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/ 0166445X) Exit NIEHS Website 54(3-4):217-230.
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