Cai, Guoshuai Yu, Xuanxuan Hutchins, David McDermott, Suzanne
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Environmental exposures to chemicals can disrupt gene expression, and the effects could be mediated by methylation. This investigation focused on methylation of genes associated with exposure to metals. Mother-child pairs from three locations in Montana were recruited, and buccal cells were collected for genome-wide methylation assay. Four pairs we...
Markiv, B Ruiz-Azcona, L Expósito, A Santibáñez, M Fernández-Olmo, I
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Environmental geochemistry and health
The environmental exposure to trace metal(loid)s (As, Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, and Zn) was assessed near a ferromanganese alloy plant using filters from personal particulate matter (PM) samplers (bioaccessible and non-bioaccessible fine and coarse fractions) and whole blood as short-term exposure markers, and scalp hair and fingernails as long-term biom...
Bar, Monika Szychowski, Konrad A
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) isocyanurate (TBC or TDBP-TAZTO) belongs to the group of brominated flame retardants (BFRs). The production of this compound is increasing due to the growing demand and wide application in electrical, electronic, musical instrument, and automotive component industries. The properties of TBC, e.g., the high octanol-air partit...
Niepsch, Daniel Clarke, Leon J Tzoulas, Konstantinos Cavan, Gina
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is linked to poor air quality and severe human health impacts, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and being responsible annually for approximately 23,500 premature deaths in the UK. Automated air quality monitoring stations continuously record pollutants in urban environments but are restricted in number (need ...
Kousa, Anne Loukola-Ruskeeniemi, Kirsti Hatakka, Tarja Kantola, Marjatta
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Environmental geochemistry and health
We report the trace element status of residents living in areas with naturally sulphide-rich bedrock and soil in two municipalities in Finland, Sotkamo and Kaavi. Altogether, 225 people from these sparsely populated regions participated voluntarily by providing hair and blood samples. The concentrations of calcium, zinc and copper in serum as well ...
Serrani, Dominique Ajmone-Marsan, Franco Corti, Giuseppe Cocco, Stefania Cardelli, Valeria Adamo, Paola
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Urban soils are often mixed with extraneous materials and show a high spatial variability that determine great differences from their agricultural or natural counterparts. The soils of 18 localities of a medium-sized city (Ancona, Italy) were analysed for their main physicochemical and biological properties, and for chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), coba...
Bramwell, Lindsay Morton, Jackie Harding, Anne-Helen Lin, Nan Entwistle, Jane
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Soil Pb concentrations at urban agriculture sites (UAS) commonly exceed recommended safe levels. There is a lack of evidence regarding uptake of Pb by gardeners using such sites for food crops. Our study aimed to elucidate whether gardening in soil with raised Pb levels results in Pb body burdens of concern to health, and to assess confounding fact...
Borhani, Faezeh Shafiepour Motlagh, Majid Stohl, Andreas Rashidi, Yousef Ehsani, Amir Houshang
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Air pollution and its effects on human health and the environment are one of the main concerns in urban areas. This study focuses on the distribution and changes in the concentrations of ozone and its precursors (i.e., NO, NO2 and CO) in Tehran for the 20-year period from 2001 to 2020. The effects of precursors and meteorological conditions (temper...
Gwandu, T Blake, L I Nezomba, H Rurinda, J Chivasa, S Mtambanengwe, F Johnson, K L
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Environmental geochemistry and health
Soil degradation, which is linked to poor nutrient management, remains a major constraint to sustained crop production in smallholder urban agriculture (UA) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While organic nutrient resources are often used in UA to complement mineral fertilizers in soil fertility management, they are usually scarce and of poor quality to...
Valdés Durán, Ana Aliaga, Guillermo Deckart, Katja Karas, Cyrus Cáceres, Dante Nario, Adriana
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Environmental geochemistry and health
The importance of environmental geochemistry baseline in soils of O´Higgins Region, Chile, since it hosts in its eastern area one of the major Cu-Mo producing mines in the country, is to establish and explain relationships between the chemical compositions of the Earth's surface and potential contaminants sources such as mining industry, agricultur...
