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A Partnership to Examine Emerging Health Effects: EC/HEI Workshop on 1,3-Butadiene

Communication 6
Health Effects Institute
1999
Topics: 
Air Pollution
Air Toxics
Global Health
Communication 6 contains proceedings from a workshop held in Brussels, Belgium, June 29–30 1998. Presentations focused on butadiene ambient concentrations, metabolism, mutagenicity, epidemiology, and a panel discussion on Butadiene Risk Assessment in the Regulatory Framework.
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Methods Development for Epidemiologic Investigations of the Health Effects of Prolonged Ozone Exposure

Research Report 81
Ira B Tager
Patrick L Kinney
1998
Topics: 
Air Pollution
Ozone & Oxidants
Innovation
Exposure Methods

Dr. Ira Tager and colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), and Dr. Patrick Kinney and colleagues at the School of Public Health, Columbia University objectives were to develop new methods for estimating an individual's past exposure to ozone.

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Pharmacokinetics of Methanol and Formate in Female Cynomolgus Monkeys Exposed to Methanol Vapors

Research Report 77
Michele A Medinsky
David C Dorman
James A Bond
Owen R Moss
Derek B Janszen
Jeffrey I Everitt
1997
Topics: 
Air Pollution
Air Toxics
Emerging Technologies
Fuels & Fuel Additives

Dr. Medinsky and colleagues of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology sought to determine how formate, a metabolite produced when methanol is broken down by the body, is formed and removed in monkeys after they have been exposed to methanol vapors. The investigators exposed female cynomolgus monkeys to environmentally relevant concentrations (10, 45, or 200 parts per million) of methanol vapors and to one high dose (900 ppm) for two hours.

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Maternal-Fetal Pharmacokinetics of Methanol

Research Report 74
Gary M Pollack
Kim LR Brouwer
1996
Topics: 
Air Pollution
Air Toxics
Emerging Technologies
Fuels & Fuel Additives

Drs. Pollack and Brouwer at the University of North Carolina determined the relationship between methanol exposure and its uptake into and elimination from the blood of nonpregnant and pregnant rodents. The investigators exposed rats and mice at several different stages of gestation to methanol intravenously or orally (doses ranged from 100 mg/kg of body weight to 2,500 mg/kg) or by inhalation (1,000 to 20,000 ppm for 8 hours). They measured blood, urine, and amniotic fluid concentrations of methanol and used the data to develop a model of methanol distribution in rodents.

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