Environmental Hygiene III

Environmental medicine and risk assessment.- Experimental Cell Biology.- Epigenetic effects of cadmium in cellular signal transduction.- Molecular alteration in human genital epithelial cells transformed by recombinant human papillomavirus DNA.- Spatial distribution as additional parameter in histochemical quantification of cell changes explored by an image analysing system.- Intraphagolysosomal pH and intracellular particle dissolution in canine and rat alveolar macrophages.- UV-C and electromagnetic radiation induce premature terminal differentiation of cultured human fibroblasts.- Effect of airborne particulates on phagocytosis of human and rat macrophages.- Cytotoxicity Testing.- Testing lead neurotoxicity with an in vitro model.- A novel fluorometric method for monitoring virus replication in response to heavy metals.- Cytoskeleton alteration in mouse tissues by postnatal exposure to heavy metal air pollutants.- Comparison of chromate and vanadate toxicity and its relationship to oxygen radical formation.- Different effects of mechanical stress (high energy shock wave treatment) in normal and transformed lung epithelial cell lines of Syrian hamster.- Effects of adrenaline and nicotine on the early chick embryo.- Mutagenicity/Carcinogenicity Studies.- Quantitation of 7-(2-hydroxyethyl)guanine produced by endogeneous and environmental ethylene oxide in DNA of lymphocytes.- New cell culture system for pulmonary carcinogenesis and inhalation toxicology.- Stable expression of heterologous microsomal epoxide hydrolase in BHK21 cells: Influence on the mutagenicity of benzo(a)pyrene 4,5-oxide.- Detection of suspicious aneugenic compounds present in environmental pollutants and their relevance in carcinogenicity.- Enzyme polymorphism in human erythrocytes influences sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) induced by the fumigant methyl bromide.- Genotoxicity of Fe(III)-NTA and its interaction with other carcinogenic metal compounds.- Inhibition of gap-junctional intercellular communication in V79 cells by airborne pariculate matter.- The metabolism of chrysene and benzo(a)pyrene in hamster, rat and human lung cells in culture.- Analysis of transforming sequences in neoplastic Syrian hamster fetal cells induced by diverse chemical carcinogens.- Carcinogenicity testing of bladder carcinogens and other organic compounds by the intraperitoneal and intravesical route.- Cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and transforming activity of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) in rat tracheal epithelial cells.- Inhalation Studies.- Toxicological criteria for comparison of smoke screens by an inhalative experimental study. An example: Toxic zinc oxide/hexachloroethane smoke.- Responses of the canine respiratory tract during long-term exposure to a sulphur(IV) aerosol at low concentration.- Acute ozone-induced change in lung permeability of genetically susceptible and resistant mice is differentially mediated by cytochrome P-450.- Photocorrosion of cadmium sulfide suspensions applied in animal inhalation studies.- Risk estimation of human lung cancer from environmental exposure to diesel exhaust: Extrapolation from particle induced experimental lung tumors?.- Short term chromate inhalation in a computer-assisted inhalation chamber: immediate toxicity and late cancer development.- Studies on the exhalation of volatile N-nitrosamines following systemic application to Sprague-Dawley rats.- The behaviour of inspired aerosol pulses in men.- The behavior of inhaled spherical iron oxide particles in human lungs: Magnetometric studies.- Honan Exposure Monitoring.- Cross sectional epidemiological study on cobalt excretion in urine of children in areas with different air pollution.- Human exposure to mercury — Effect of amalgam fillings.- Cytogenetic studies of chemically exposed workers in Sachsen-Anhalt.- Heavy metals in the blood, urine and hair of a representative population sample in the Federal Republic of Germany 1985/86.- Urinary alkylpurines as markers of alkylating agent exposure in humans.- Total exposure to lead and cadmium of a group of people from a lead contaminated area.- The significance of asbestos bodies and occurrence of macrophages in the sputum of asbestos-exposed workers.- Environmental and biological monitoring of mercury following chronic occupational exposure.- Aluminium exposure and health risks.- Epidemiology.- Air pollution and bronchial reactivity in schoolchildren with a medical history of respiratory diseases.- Effects of air pollution on the health of children in East- and West-Germany: Aspects of study-design and descriptive results for some questionnaire items.- Air pollution and allergic reactions.- Effects of the extreme environmental pollution on the general health state of the population in Bitterfeld (former G.D.R).- Hazardous Environmental Agents.- 1. Radon.- Effects of mobility upon the distribution of lifetime radon exposures.- Radon in the human environment.- 2. Dioxin.- Dioxin exposure and health effects on people at Seveso, Italy.- 3. Mineral Dust and Fibres.- Comparison of cytotoxic effects of asbestos and glass fibres on the cytoskeleton of epithelial lung cells in vitro.- HL-60-cell derived macrophages are resistant to cytotoxic effects of quartz.- In vitro correlates of the pathogenicity of a long fibre sample of amosite asbestos compared to a short fibre sample.- Quartz or coal mine dust treated human monocyte-derived macrophages release a proliferation factor for human lung fibroblasts (WI-38).- Dust and LPS induced stimulation of nitrite and nitrate release in bovine alveolar macrophages.- Influence of coal mine dust and surfactant on chemiluminescence-activity of alveolar macrophages in vitro.- Environmental Control, Prevention And Legislation.- Industrial risk assessment and corresponding management scenarios-case study at the Aluminum Casting Plant.- Environmental tobacco smoke in public places.- Carcinogenic air pollutants: Essential legislative regulations.- Biological remediation processes — A challenge for the environmental hygiene.- Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans — Measures for the protection of man and the environment.- Measurements of the environmental pollution during cleaning up of solid waste depositions of chemical weapons.- Monitoring of an rDNA B.subtilis in environmental samples.- Air pollution in the former German Democratic Republic — Consequences for political economy and health control.