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Zhibin Huang, Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu and Xinwei Yang
Although numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated a relationship between environmental factors and chronic diseases, there is a lack of comprehensive population health vulnerability assessment studies from the perspective of environmental expos...
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Céline Dinocourt, Cécile Culeux, Marie Legrand, Christelle Elie and Philippe Lestaevel
Uranium exposure leads to cerebral dysfunction involving for instance biochemical, neurochemical and neurobehavioral effects. Most studies have focused on mechanisms in uranium-exposed adult animals. However, recent data on developing animals have shown ...
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Piers MacNaughton, Erika Eitland, Itai Kloog, Joel Schwartz and Joseph Allen
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Stephen J. Lepore, Bhaskar Shejwal, Bang Hyun Kim and Gary W. Evans
The present study builds on prior research that has examined the association between children?s chronic exposure to community noise and resting blood pressure and blood pressure dysregulation during exposure to acute stressors. A novel contribution of th...
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Abul H. Milton, S. M. Shahidullah, Wayne Smith, Kazi S. Hossain, Ziaul Hasan and Kazi T. Ahmed
The role of nutritional factors in arsenic metabolism and toxicity is yet to be fully elucidated. A low protein diet results in decreased excretion of DMA and increased tissue retention of arsenic in experimental studies. Malnourished women carry a highe...
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Young-Joo Yun, Sung-Ah Kim, Jaehee Kim and Jae-Sung Rhee
Diuron, an additive biocide in antifouling paints, is widely employed to curtail the attachment of organisms on submerged surfaces in aquatic structures. Despite the detection of diuron in aquatic ecosystems, information regarding its acute and chronic i...
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Johanna Brinkel, Mobarak H. Khan and Alexander Kraemer
Underground water in many regions of the world is contaminated with high concentrations of arsenic and the resulting toxicity has created a major environmental and public health problem in the affected regions. Chronic arsenic exposure can cause many dis...
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Pengcheng Song, Zhigang Li, Xiaoqian Li, Lixin Yang, Lulu Zhang, Nannan Li, Chen Guo, Shuyu Lu and Yongjie Wei
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Aiswarya Ragothaman and William A. Anderson
Though refineries and petrochemical industries meet society?s energy demands and produce a range of useful chemicals, they can also affect air quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified polluted air as the single largest environmental ri...
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Ying Wang, Lina Li, Xun Zhang and Mingshan Ji
Excessive pesticide application in greenhouses leads to elevated levels of pesticide residues, especially in cold seasons, thereby posing a potential dietary exposure risk to the residents? health. This study aimed to investigate 65 pesticides in 469 lea...
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Neelam Soni, Vinay Kumar Singh
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Plants Terminalia arjuna and Tamarindus indica are known to have a significant molluscicidal potential to control the population of vector snails. Since the molluscicides are considered an emerging pollutant and are frequently detected in surface water b...
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Dirga Kumar Lamichhane, Jong Han Leem and Hwan Cheol Kim
This study was undertaken to investigate the associations between chronic exposure to particulate matter of medium aerodynamic diameter =10 or =2.5 µm (PM10 or PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels and lung function and to examine a possible change in...
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Alica Stubnova Sparling, David W. Martin and Lillian B. Posey
Citing a lack of information, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prudently did not account for the benefits of averting many chronic diseases in analyzing the Worker Protection Standards (WPS) revisions. We demonstrate that sufficient information c...
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A. H. M. Nurun Nabi, M. Mahfuzur Rahman and Laila N. Islam
An estimated 40 million people in Bangladesh have been suffering from arsenic toxicity-related diseases because of drinking water contamination with high levels of naturally occurring arsenic. To evaluate the biochemical changes in chronic arsenic exposu...
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Ibrahim O. Farah
Black seed (N. Sativa L) is an oriental spice of the family Ranunculaceae that has long been rationally used as a natural medicine for treatment of many acute as well as chronic conditions including cardiovascular disease and immunological disorders. It ...
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Lingsong Zhang, Fansheng Meng, Na Liu, Jiasheng Zhang and Hao Xue
Copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and nickel (Ni) are essential micronutrients for aquatic life, but they produce adverse effects on aquatic organisms when environmental concentrations exceed a certain threshold. The objective of this study was to analyze the taxo...
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Jesús Plácido Medina Salas, Francisco Gamarra Gómez, Elisban Juani Sacari Sacari, Wilson Orlando Lanchipa Ramos, Rocío María Tamayo Calderón, Efracio Mamani Flores, Víctor Yapuchura Platero, Walter Dimas Florez Ponce de León and Elmer Marcial Limache Sandoval
Arsenic (III) exposure, often from contaminated water, can have severe health repercussions. Chronic exposure to this toxic compound is linked to increased risks of various health issues. Various technologies exist for arsenic (III) removal from contamin...
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Aryatara Shakya, Matthew Dodson, Janick F. Artiola, Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, Robert A. Root, Xinxin Ding, Jon Chorover and Raina M. Maier
Arsenic is ubiquitous in soil and water environments and is consistently at the top of the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) substance priority list. It has been shown to induce toxicity even at low levels of exposure. One of the major...
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Daniela Mokra, Romana Barosova and Juraj Mokry
Sex-based differences in bronchial asthma can already be observed in childhood, at which time allergic atopic asthma is more frequently found in boys than in girls. In adulthood, higher prevalence of asthma is reported in women, especially for the more s...
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Daniela Correia, Inês Domingues, Melissa Faria and Miguel Oliveira
Fluoxetine is an antidepressant widely used to treat depressive and anxiety states. Due to its mode of action in the central nervous system (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)), it becomes toxic to non-target organisms, leading to changes that...
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