The science of the total environment

A review on biodiesel production using catalyzed transesterification

Ecological effects, transport, and fate of mercury: a general review.

https://www.healthandenvironment.org/docs/RochesterBPAstudy2013.pdf

Bisphenol A and human health: a review of the literature.

The Endocrine Society's first Scientific Statement in 2009 provided a wake-up call to the scientific community about how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) affect health and disease. Five years later, a substantially larger body of literature has solidified our understanding of plausible mechanisms underlying EDC actions and how exposures in animals and humans-especially during development-may lay the foundations for disease later in life. At this point in history, we have much stronger knowledge about how EDCs alter gene-environment interactions via physiological, cellular, molecular, and epigenetic changes, thereby producing effects in exposed individuals as well as their descendants. Causal links between exposure and manifestation of disease are substantiated by experimental animal models and are consistent with correlative epidemiological data in humans. There are several caveats because differences in how experimental animal work is conducted can lead to difficulties in drawing broad conclusions, and we must continue to be cautious about inferring causality in humans. In this second Scientific Statement, we reviewed the literature on a subset of topics for which the translational evidence is strongest: 1) obesity and diabetes; 2) female reproduction; 3) male reproduction; 4) hormone-sensitive cancers in females; 5) prostate; 6) thyroid; and 7) neurodevelopment and neuroendocrine systems. Our inclusion criteria for studies were those conducted predominantly in the past 5 years deemed to be of high quality based on appropriate negative and positive control groups or populations, adequate sample size and experimental design, and mammalian animal studies with exposure levels in a range that was relevant to humans. We also focused on studies using the developmental origins of health and disease model. No report was excluded based on a positive or negative effect of the EDC exposure. The bulk of the results across the board strengthen the evidence for endocrine health-related actions of EDCs. Based on this much more complete understanding of the endocrine principles by which EDCs act, including nonmonotonic dose-responses, low-dose effects, and developmental vulnerability, these findings can be much better translated to human health. Armed with this information, researchers, physicians, and other healthcare providers can guide regulators and policymakers as they make responsible decisions.

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EDC-2: The Endocrine Society's Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Development of heterogeneous base catalysts for biodiesel production.

Acceleration of catalytic activity of calcium oxide for biodiesel production.

Bisphenol A Accelerates Terminal Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Cells into Adipocytes through the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway

Bisphenol A in combination with insulin can accelerate the conversion of 3T3-L1 fibroblasts to adipocytes

The concentrations of Fe, mn, Zn, Cu, Pb, Ni, Cd and Hg in the muscle, liver and kidney of fifty nine striped dolphins captured during 1977 ~ 1980 were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The levels of most the metals examined were higher in the liver than the other tissues, except for the highest renal Cd. The frequency distribution of the metal concentrations was mostly log-normal. For all of the organs, correlation of the metal concentrations to the body length, weight and age was positive for Fe, Pb, Ni, Cd and Hg, and negative for Mn, Zn and Cu. A higher correlation of the concentrations of Fe, ??, Zn and Cu to the body length and weight than to the age indicates that the metabolic turnover is more important than age or exposure time in determining the levels of those metals. Whilst the concentration of Pb, Ni, Cd and Hg correlated closely with the age of dolphins, and this suggests that the age or exposure time is a dominant factor for accumulation of these metals.The concentrations o...

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bbb1961/47/6/47_6_1219/_pdf

Heavy Metal Concentrations in Muscle, Liver and Kidney Tissue of Striped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, and Their Variations with Body Length, Weight, Age and Sex

Katsuhisa Honda

Papers

Development of heterogeneous base catalysts for biodiesel production.

Acceleration of catalytic activity of calcium oxide for biodiesel production.

Bisphenol A Accelerates Terminal Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Cells into Adipocytes through the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway

Bisphenol A in combination with insulin can accelerate the conversion of 3T3-L1 fibroblasts to adipocytes

Heavy Metal Concentrations in Muscle, Liver and Kidney Tissue of Striped Dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, and Their Variations with Body Length, Weight, Age and Sex