Introduction: Scientific advances in environmental medicine

Introduction: Scientific advances in environmental medicine

-Enhancement of CCNU cytotoxicity by misonidazole (MISO) was studied in three tumours and two normal tissues in the mouse. The 3 experimental tumours (SCCVII/St, EMT6 and KHT) showed very different sensitivities to CCNU alone, but MISO enhanced the cell killing in ech case. The effect was not always dose-modifying, so that the CCNU dose range for the greatest enhancement was different in each o...

Introduction of Scientific Quality Index

The Scientific Quality Index (SQI) was proposed as a qualitative index in 2017 to evaluate the scientific outputs of researchers. In this article, in addition to introducing this index, the results of the most recent researches using this index are mentioned to provide the necessary background for related researches within the country.

Introduction: Advances in Lead Research: Implications for Environmental Health

A method has been developed for measuring the drug sensitivity of human gliomas in short-term culture, using scintillation counting or autofluorography. Cell cultures prepared from malignant astrocytomas were treated with anticancer drugs whilst in exponential growth in microtitration plates. After drug treatment and a recovery period, residual viability was measured by [3H] leucine incorporati...

The threat to scientific integrity in environmental and occupational medicine.

Over the last century, environmental and occupational medicine has played a significant role in the protection and improvement of public health. However, scientific integrity in this field has been increasingly threatened by pressure from some industries and governments. For example, it has been reported that the tobacco industry manipulated eminent scientists to legitimise their industrial pos...

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction