In vitro methods are common and widely used for screening and ranking chemicals, and
have also been taken into account sporadically for risk assessment purposes in the case of�…

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the contribution of traffic fumes to exposure to benzene in urban
workers, an investigation on personal exposure to benzene in traffic police from the city of�…

In 2002, public health concerns were raised by Swedish studies showing that relatively high
levels of acrylamide were formed during the frying, roasting, or baking of a variety of foods�…

Perfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) is the collective name for a vast group of fluorinated
compounds, including oligomers and polymers, which consist of neutral and anionic surface�…

This paper is one of several prepared under the project “Food Safety In Europe: Risk
Assessment of Chemicals in Food and Diet”(FOSIE), a European Commission Concerted�…

In order to elucidate the health effects of occupational exposure to traffic fumes, a few
biomarkers of early genetic effect were investigated in Rome traffic policemen. One hundred�…

OBJECTIVES--Benzene is an established animal and human carcinogen. The mechanism
of benzene toxicity, particularly its leukaemogenic effect, is not fully understood. The�…

Our objective was to compare the effectiveness of intravenous and enteral nimodipine in
preventing poor outcome from delayed cerebral ischemia in patients with subarachnoid�…

Workers in the petroleum distribution trades experience relatively high-level exposures to
fuel vapours whose consequences have not been fully elucidated. In this study, the possible�…

Although aneuploidy makes a significant contribution to both somatic and inherited disease
the mechanisms by which environmental chemicals may induce numerical chromosome�…