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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 110, Number 1, January 2002
Environmental Health Perspectives January 2002 On The Cover: Life requires energy. A variety of articles in this month's issue examine the world's increasing energy needs: the problems in finding, obtaining, and renewing energy resources, and the sometimes adverse effects on human health and the environment of our dependence on fuel.
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  • The Prospects for Oil
    A 22
  • Roadblocks to Renewable Energy
    A 30
  • What's Fueling Low Birth Weights?
    A 42 & 109

Perspectives

Editorial

  • The National Center for Toxicogenomics: Using New Technologies to Inform Mechanistic Toxicology
    Raymond W. Tennant
    p. A 8

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Correspondence

  • Detection of Excess Arsenic-Related Cancer Risks
  • Carcinogenicity of Trichloroethylene
  • N-Acetyltransferase 2 Polymorphism in Patients with Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome
  • Use of Reporter Genes and Vertebrate DNA Motifs in Transgenic Zebrafish as Sentinels for Assessing Aquatic Pollution
    p. A 12

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Environews

Forum

  • New Cell Growth
  • A Disservice to the Environment?
  • The Economics of Ethanol
  • Switching to Switchgrass
  • EHPnet: Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  • The Beat
    p. A 16

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NIEHS News

  • New Centers to Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disorders
    p. A 20

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Focus

Spheres of Influence

Innovations

Science Selections

  • Cooking Up Problems for Babies
  • Polluting Your Internal Environment
  • East or West, Cardiac Arrest
    p. A 42

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Commentaries

  • Where the Boys Aren't: Dioxin and the Sex Ratio
    Piet Hein Jongbloet, Nel Roeleveld, and Hans M. M. Groenewoud
    p. 1

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  • Starlink Corn: A Risk Analysis
    Luca Bucchini and Lynn R. Goldman
    p. 5

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Research

Review

  • Dioxins and Endometriosis: A Plausible Hypothesis
    Linda S. Birnbaum and Audrey M. Cummings
    p. 15

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Articles

  • Exposure Assessment to Dioxins from the Use of Tampons and Diapers
    Michael J. DeVito and Arnold Schecter
    p. 23

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  • Prediction of Estrogen Receptor Binding for 58,000 Chemicals Using an Integrated System of a Tree-Based Model with Structural Alerts
    Huixiao Hong, Weida Tong, Hong Fang, Leming Shi, Qian Xie, Jie Wu, Roger Perkins, John D. Walker, William Branham, and Daniel M. Sheehan
    p. 29

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  • Attenuation of Both Apoptotic and Necrotic Actions of Cadmium by Bcl-2
    Masami Ishido, Rieko Ohtsubo, Tatsumi Adachi, and Manabu Kunimoto
    p. 37

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  • Air Conditioning and Source-Specific Particles as Modifiers of the Effect of PM10 on Hospital Admissions for Heart and Lung Disease
    Nicole A. H. Janssen, Joel Schwartz, Antonella Zanobetti, and Helen H. Suh
    p. 43

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  • Implanted Depleted Uranium Fragments Cause Soft Tissue Sarcomas in the Muscles of Rats
    Fletcher F. Hahn, Raymond A. Guilmette, and Mark D. Hoover
    p. 51

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  • Air Pollution and Daily Mortality: A Hypothesis Concerning the Role of Impaired Homeostasis
    Robert Frank and Clarke Tankersley
    p. 61

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  • A Tale of Two Cities: Effects of Air Pollution on Hospital Admissions in Hong Kong and London Compared
    Chit-Ming Wong, Richard W Atkinson, H. Ross Anderson, Anthony Johnson Hedley, Stefan Ma, Patsy Yuen-Kwan Chau, and Tai-Hing Lam
    p. 67

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  • The Effect of Ozone Exposure on the Ability of Human Surfactant Protein A Variants to Stimulate Cytokine Production
    Guirong Wang, Todd M. Umstead, David S. Phelps, Hamid Al-Mondhiry, and Joanna Floros
    p. 79

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  • A Consistent Approach for the Application of Pharmacokinetic Modeling in Cancer and Noncancer Risk Assessment
    Harvey J. Clewell, III, Melvin E. Andersen, and Hugh A. Barton
    p. 85

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  • The Characterization of Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation in Inactivating Airborne Microorganisms
    Gwangpyo Ko, Melvin W. First, and Harriet A. Burge
    p. 95

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Children's Health

  • The Effect of Interior Lead Hazard Controls on Children's Blood Lead Concentrations: A Systematic Evaluation
    Erin Haynes, Bruce P. Lanphear, Ellen Tohn, Nick Farr, and George G. Rhoads
    p. 103

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  • Birth Weight and Exposure to Kitchen Wood Smoke during Pregnancy in Rural Guatemala
    Erick Boy, Nigel Bruce, and Hern‡n Delgado
    p. 109

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Grand Rounds

  • Blood Lead Concentration after a Shotgun Accident
    Lars Gerhardsson, Lars Dahlin, Richard Knebel, and Andrejs Schültz
    p. 115

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