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Volume 116(12);  December 2008
Reviews
Climate Variability, Social and Environmental Factors, and Ross River Virus Transmission: Research Development and Future Research Needs
Shilu Tong, Pat Dale, Neville Nicholls, John S. Mackenzie, Rodney Wolff, and Anthony J. McMichael
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1591–1597. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11680.
PMCID: PMC2599750
Comparative Analysis of State Fish Consumption Advisories Targeting Sensitive Populations
Alison C. Scherer, Ami Tsuchiya, Lisa R. Younglove, Thomas M. Burbacher, and Elaine M. Faustman
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1598–1606. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11372.
PMCID: PMC2599751
Research
Acute Toxicity and Prothrombotic Effects of Quantum Dots: Impact of Surface Charge
Jorina Geys, Abderrahim Nemmar, Erik Verbeken, Erik Smolders, Monica Ratoi, Marc F. Hoylaerts, Benoit Nemery, and Peter H.M. Hoet
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1607–1613. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11566.
PMCID: PMC2599752
Mortality in the Medicare Population and Chronic Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution in Urban Centers (2000–2005)
Scott L. Zeger, Francesca Dominici, Aidan McDermott, and Jonathan M. Samet
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1614–1619. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11449.
PMCID: PMC2599753
Cadmium-Related Mortality and Long-Term Secular Trends in the Cadmium Body Burden of an Environmentally Exposed Population
Tim S. Nawrot, Etienne Van Hecke, Lutgarde Thijs, Tom Richart, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Yu Jin, Jaco Vangronsveld, Harry A. Roels, and Jan A. Staessen
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1620–1628. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11667.
PMCID: PMC2599754
Population Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling for the Human Lactational Transfer of PCB-153 with Consideration of Worldwide Human Biomonitoring Results
Laurel E. Redding, Michael D. Sohn, Thomas E. McKone, Jein-Wen Chen, Shu-Li Wang, Dennis P. H. Hsieh, and Raymond S.H. Yang
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1629–1635. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11519.
PMCID: PMC2599755
Hormone Disruption by PBDEs in Adult Male Sport Fish Consumers
Mary E. Turyk, Victoria W. Persky, Pamela Imm, Lynda Knobeloch, Robert Chatterton, Jr., and Henry A. Anderson
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1635–1641. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11707.
PMCID: PMC2599756
Bisphenol A at Environmentally Relevant Doses Inhibits Adiponectin Release from Human Adipose Tissue Explants and Adipocytes
Eric R. Hugo, Terry D. Brandebourg, Jessica G. Woo, Jean Loftus, J. Wesley Alexander, and Nira Ben-Jonathan
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1642–1647. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11537.
PMCID: PMC2599757
G-Protein–Coupled Receptor 30 and Estrogen Receptor-α Are Involved in the Proliferative Effects Induced by Atrazine in Ovarian Cancer Cells
Lidia Albanito, Rosamaria Lappano, Antonio Madeo, Adele Chimento, Eric R. Prossnitz, Anna Rita Cappello, Vincenza Dolce, Sergio Abonante, Vincenzo Pezzi, and Marcello Maggiolini
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1648–1655. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11297.
PMCID: PMC2599758
Speciation of Arsenic in Exfoliated Urinary Bladder Epithelial Cells from Individuals Exposed to Arsenic in Drinking Water
Araceli Hernández-Zavala, Olga L. Valenzuela, Tomás Matousek, Zuzana Drobná, Ji[r with breve]í Dĕdina, Gonzalo G. García-Vargas, David J. Thomas, Luz M. Del Razo, and Miroslav Stýblo
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1656–1660. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11503.
PMCID: PMC2599759
Respiratory Cancer and Inhaled Inorganic Arsenic in Copper Smelters Workers: A Linear Relationship with Cumulative Exposure that Increases with Concentration
Jay H. Lubin, Lee E. Moore, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., and Kenneth P. Cantor
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1661–1665. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11515.
PMCID: PMC2599760
Endothelial Dysfunction: Associations with Exposure to Ambient Fine Particles in Diabetic Individuals
Alexandra Schneider, Lucas Neas, Margaret C. Herbst, Martin Case, Ronald W. Williams, Wayne Cascio, Alan Hinderliter, Fernando Holguin, John B. Buse, Kathleen Dungan, Maya Styner, Annette Peters, and Robert B. Devlin
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1666–1674. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11666.
PMCID: PMC2599761
Recent Mortality from Pleural Mesothelioma, Historical Patterns of Asbestos Use, and Adoption of Bans: A Global Assessment
Kunihito Nishikawa, Ken Takahashi, Antti Karjalainen, Chi-Pang Wen, Sugio Furuya, Tsutomu Hoshuyama, Miwako Todoroki, Yoshifumi Kiyomoto, Donald Wilson, Toshiaki Higashi, Megu Ohtaki, Guowei Pan, and Gregory Wagner
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1675–1680. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11272.
PMCID: PMC2599762
Changes in Pest Infestation Levels, Self-Reported Pesticide Use, and Permethrin Exposure during Pregnancy after the 2000–2001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Restriction of Organophosphates
Megan K. Williams, Andrew Rundle, Darrell Holmes, Marilyn Reyes, Lori A. Hoepner, Dana B. Barr, David E. Camann, Frederica P. Perera, and Robin M. Whyatt
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1681–1688. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11367.
PMCID: PMC2599763
Inhalative Exposure to Vanadium Pentoxide Causes DNA Damage in Workers: Results of a Multiple End Point Study
Veronika A. Ehrlich, Armen K. Nersesyan, Christine Hoelzl, Franziska Ferk, Julia Bichler, Eva Valic, Andreas Schaffer, Rolf Schulte-Hermann, Michael Fenech, Karl-Heinz Wagner, and Siegfried Knasmüller
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1689–1693. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11438.
PMCID: PMC2599764
Dietary Exposure to 2,2′,4,4′-Tetrabromodiphenyl Ether (PBDE-47) Alters Thyroid Status and Thyroid Hormone–Regulated Gene Transcription in the Pituitary and Brain
Sean C. Lema, Jon T. Dickey, Irvin R. Schultz, and Penny Swanson
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1694–1699. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11570.
PMCID: PMC2599765
Guidelines to Evaluate Human Observational Studies for Quantitative Risk Assessment
Jelle Vlaanderen, Roel Vermeulen, Dick Heederik, Hans Kromhout, and European Union Network of Excellence ECNIS Integrated Risk Assessment Group
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1700–1705. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11530.
PMCID: PMC2599766
Meeting Report: Methylmercury in Marine Ecosystems—From Sources to Seafood Consumers
Celia Y. Chen, Nancy Serrell, David C. Evers, Bethany J. Fleishman, Kathleen F. Lambert, Jeri Weiss, Robert P. Mason, and Michael S. Bank
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1706–1712. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11211.
PMCID: PMC2599767
Depression and Pesticide Exposures among Private Pesticide Applicators Enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study
Cheryl L. Beseler, Lorann Stallones, Jane A. Hoppin, Michael C.R. Alavanja, Aaron Blair, Thomas Keefe, and Freya Kamel
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1713–1719. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11091.
PMCID: PMC2599768
Ten Years of Addressing Children’s Health through Regulatory Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Devon Payne-Sturges and Debra Kemp
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1720–1724. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11390.
PMCID: PMC2599769
Chronic Exposure to Ambient Ozone and Asthma Hospital Admissions among Children
Shao Lin, Xiu Liu, Linh H. Le, and Syni-An Hwang
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1725–1730. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11184.
PMCID: PMC2599770
Plutonium from Above-Ground Nuclear Tests in Milk Teeth: Investigation of Placental Transfer in Children Born between 1951 and 1995 in Switzerland
Pascal Froidevaux and Max Haldimann
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1731–1734. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11358.
PMCID: PMC2599771
A Framework for Widespread Replication of a Highly Spatially Resolved Childhood Lead Exposure Risk Model
Dohyeong Kim, M. Alicia Overstreet Galeano, Andrew Hull, and Marie Lynn Miranda
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): 1735–1739. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11540.
PMCID: PMC2599772
Perspectives
Editorial
Enhancing the Quality and Visibility of African Medical and Health Journals
Thomas J. Goehl and Annette Flanagin
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A514–A515. doi: 10.1289/ehp.12265.
PMCID: PMC2599773
Correspondence
Public Safety and Faulty Flood Statistics
Robert E. Criss and William E. Winston
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A516. doi: 10.1289/ehp.12042.
PMCID: PMC2599774
Longer Rodent Bioassay Fails to Address 2-Year Bioassay’s Flaws
Joseph Manuppello and Catherine Willett
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A516–A517. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11964.
PMCID: PMC2599775
Longer Rodent Bioassay: Huff et al. Respond
James Huff, Michael F. Jacobson, and Devra Lee Davis
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A517–A518. doi: 10.1289/ehp.11964R.
PMCID: PMC2599776
Environews
Forum
Obesity: Childhood BMI Rises with Prenatal Exposure to Hexachlorobenzene
David J. Tenenbaum
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A520.
PMCID: PMC2599778
Molecular Biology: Telomerase Tells on Lifestyle
M. Nathaniel Mead
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A521.
PMCID: PMC2599779
Children’s Health: Soil in the City: A Prime Source of Lead
Lance Frazer
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A522.
PMCID: PMC2599780
The Beat
Erin E. Dooley
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A522–A523.
PMCID: PMC2599781
Particulate Matter: New Chapter on the Next Generation of Aerosols
Cynthia Washam
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A523.
PMCID: PMC2599782
Focus
The Yuck Factor When Disgust Meets Discovery
Charles W. Schmidt
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A524–A527.
PMCID: PMC2599783
Spheres of Influence
Does One Size Fit All?: Small Farms and U.S. Meat Regulations
David A. Taylor
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A529–A531.
PMCID: PMC2599784
Science Selections
Angling for Thyroid Answers: Study Links PBDEs to Hormone Disruption in Male Sport-Fish Consumers
Richard Dahl
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A532.
PMCID: PMC2599785
A Measure for Mothers: Model Predicts Lactational Transfer of PCB-153
M. Nathaniel Mead
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A532.
PMCID: PMC2599786
Bisphenol A Suppresses Release of Adipose Hormone: Exposure May Contribute to Metabolic Syndrome
Tanya Tillett
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A533.
PMCID: PMC2599787
New Pesticides, Old Problems: Despite Warnings, Use during Pregnancy Persists
Bob Weinhold
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A533.
PMCID: PMC2599788
Announcements
Book Review
Risk Assessment for Environmental Health
Reuben Thomas
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A546.
PMCID: PMC2599789
New Books
New Books
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A546.
PMCID: PMC2599790
Erratum
Errata
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 December; 116(12): A519.
PMCID: PMC2599777
Corrects: Charles W. Schmidt. Linking TB and the Environment: An Overlooked Mitigation Strategy. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 November; 116(11): A478–A485.
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