Heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were analyzed in 34 surface soil samples collected from farmland and 7 soil or dust samples collected from the workshops in South China, where e-waste was dismantled using primitive techniques. The results show that Cd, Cu and Hg were the most abundant metals, in particular...

Each environmental exposure matrix contains a unique mixture of PCB congeners. Since several congener types have multiple and distinct biological actions, it is important to characterize congener profiles in exposure sources. The Fox River Environment and Diet Study (FRIENDS) is assessing the human health effects of consumption of PCB-contaminated fish from the Fox River in northeastern Wiscons...

We have followed up the mortality experience of a group of 1254 electrical engineers during 1930-79, all of whom graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The study population consisted of all the men who graduated from this university from 1930 to 1959 with a master of science degree in electrical engineering. These men have been exposed to a variety of laboratory and tech...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are one of the most persistent and widespread group of endocrine disrupting compounds in the ecosystem. High concentrations of these substances are known to be present in sewage sludge from industrial, agricultural, and domestic origin that is spread in increasing amounts on arable land and pasture as fertilizer and is found in water, representing an increasing ...

The effects of polychlorinated biphenyl plasticizers, like those of many other environmental chemicals ("synthetic chemicals to which man is exposed by either voluntary or involuntary means"), on biological systems are not too well understood. When research by our group at the University of Wisconsin indicated in 1969 (1) that several of the Aroclor compounds increased the toxicity of DDT and d...

OBJECTIVES Determine whether body mass index (BMI) and physical activity (PA) above, at or below MET minute per week (MMW) levels recommended in the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines interact or have additive effects on interleukin (IL)-6, C reactive protein (CRP), fibrinogen, interleukin6 (IL-6) soluble receptor (IL-6sr), soluble E-selectin and soluble intracellular adhesion molecule (sICAM)-1...