Sentences with phrase «of environmental compounds»

Everyday levels of an environmental compound do not necessarily trigger symptoms if the body's glutathione levels are at healthy levels.

Not exact matches

Such «solutions» would only compound the industry's horrific treatment of workers and animals and exacerbate the environmental and health crises caused by the industry.

Food are generally composed of chemical and biochemical compounds which may exposed each other or to the certain environmental conditions and resulting in the new food compounds.

A study published in the Archives of Environmental Health in 1999, found that disposable diapers release chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene and dipentene.

Ciaravino says although the detected levels are below levels recommended in an EPA health advisory, the state's Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health recommend that the compound be reduced or eliminated.

Now one team reports in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology that small amounts of house dust containing many of these compounds can spur fat cells to accumulate more triglycerides, or fat, in a lab dish.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Proteenvironmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental ProteEnvironmental Protection Agency.

From a human health and environmental perspective, it is therefore important to reduce the indoor and outdoor levels of these volatile organic compounds.

Free radicals are compounds composed of unstable atoms generated both by the body and environmental sources such as smoking and pollution that damage cells, possibly leading to increased disease susceptibility and aging.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

Two chemicals in receipt paper that replace the toxic compound bisphenol A, or BPA, are just as capable of soaking into the human body as their predecessor, researchers report August 25 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

This opens up the possibility for the production and use of sentinel circuits, which produce other bioactive compounds in response to environmental or cellular changes, to target a range of diseases including cancer.»

«Extensive environmental contamination was found in both of the villages and inside individual family compounds.»

Now researchers report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters that exposure to at least one of the newer compounds has increased significantly over the past decade.

«Once we know how much potential there is [in a yeast], we can start playing around with them, too, and see how environmental components can impact the expression of the flavor compounds.

«So now that we have seen this environmental toxicant - induced inflammation, we can study the beneficial anti-inflammatory foods, like the purple potato and others, in this human development model, and see how a mother's health and her levels of toxicants and beneficial compounds will influence the baby's susceptibility to chronic disease.»

The study's lead author, Heather Stapleton, a Duke University assistant professor of environmental chemistry, said many of the compounds have been used in foam cushions only recently, replacing another chemical that was banned after 2004 because it was building up rapidly in human bodies.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

«Triclosan's increasing detection in environmental samples and its increasingly broad use in consumer products may overcome its moderate benefit and present a very real risk of liver toxicity for people, as it does in mice, particularly when combined with other compounds with similar action,» said Robert H. Tukey, PhD, professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Pharmacology.

The embassy's monitor, located at its compound in northeast Beijing's Chaoyang District, offers a different perspective on citywide readings posted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, which focuses on PM10 and sulfur dioxide.

Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, says that ICP seems to offer one clear advantage over reverse osmosis: it does a better job of sifting out charged pollutants and could be more efficient at removing bacteria and some industrial waste compounds.

For example, at an ancestral Pueblo settlement in Blue J, N.M, the researchers were able to map detailed architectural plans of a dozen ancient house compounds — a discovery enabled by the site's optimal conditions, the soil matrix, low density ground cover, and the environmental conditions at the time of the aerial thermography.

Researchers from UC Davis and the California Institute of Technology conducted a series of experiments in a 24 cubic meter environmental chamber using the volatile organic compound toluene, which is emitted from motor vehicles and is an important SOA precursor.

«After the newly discovered bacteria interact with uranium compounds in water, the uranium becomes immobile,» said Lee Kerkhof, a professor of marine and coastal sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

«It's a little bit of an obscure compound,» says chemist Rolf Halden of the Center for Environmental Security at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.

It is generally thought that these compounds have reached the aquatic environment for as long as they have been commercially used, but only during the last decade or so has environmental research been widely conducted and concerns over the effects of pharmaceuticals in water bodies been raised.

In order to know the normal range of food compositions, federal agencies need to build a comprehensive database of several hundred compounds in crops grown in a range of environmental conditions.

In research recently published in Environmental Science & Technology, Waring describes the role of limonene, the organic compound that gives cleaners and air fresheners an orange scent and acts as a solvent, in the formation of secondary organic aerosols.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

Second, the existence and use of this compound for decades — which seems to have evaded the attention of environmental research and regulations — reminds us that we don't fully understand the full extent of environmental contamination of these types of compounds in the environment.

It is particularly important to prove that the findings are robust in terms of cell type, environmental conditions and compound concentrations to mention a few aspects.

These pesticides undergo individual risk assessments to identify potential environmental effects, but the impact of combinations of these compounds is often unknown.

Finally, it is recognized that environmental changes wrought by humans, compounded by population expansion, have resulted in an increase the types and the intensification of the pollutants within the environment, many of which are directly associated with neoplastic disease and were not part of environments in the past [35].

The betaine present in beets is also a powerful compound that can protects cells, proteins and enzymes in the human body from environmental stress and help prevent chronic diseases associated with inflammation such as several types of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

High environmental concentrations of aluminum can be caused by nearby mines or industries which process and produce aluminum metal, alloys and compounds.

The most striking results were those showing that soybean oil significantly affects the expression of many genes that metabolize drugs and other foreign compounds that enter the body, suggesting that a soybean oil - enriched diet could affect one's response to drugs and environmental toxicants, if humans show the same response as mice.

In a new study published in Environmental Science and Technology, the UC Boulder team measured levels of more than 100 different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air, both from the roof of a research lab and from a mobile laboratory driving around Boulder.

In addition to exogenous estrogen such as the intake of estrogenic compounds in the form of hormones, we are all exposed to environmental estrogen, or what we call xenoestrogens.

A 2009 study by the Environmental Working Group identified 232 different industrial compounds and pollutants in the cord blood of 10 infants.

We should be concerned with environmental and food toxins, but I think an understanding of how plant phytochemicals lower risk entails an understanding of hormesis, with suprising implications for a variety of natural and manmade compounds.

This may include assessment of your risk for developing certain diseases, your ability to metabolize certain drugs and / or herbs and compounds, or your ability to detoxify certain substances, including environmental toxins.

Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD, is an environmental scientist with expertise in the assessment of effects of contaminants in the environment, including interest in endocrine disrupting compounds and trace metals.

Types of mercury compounds studied were methylmercury chloride, (environmental), thimerosal (pharmaceutical) and mercuric chloride (inorganic).

Leafy greens are loaded with beta - carotene, a compound that protects plants from the ravages of sunlight and environmental threats.

Cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage and garden cress, have a high concentration of the naturally occurring molecular compound sulforaphane, which previously has been shown to protect people against environmental carcinogens.

The significance of detox becomes apparent when you understand that our main liver detox gene, P450, has been crippling by the industrial seed oils ubiquitous in the food system thus hindering our ability to detox; recent studies have found that soybean oil, canola oil (and vegetable oils as they typically contain soybean / canola oil) significantly affect the expression of many genes that metabolize drugs and other foreign compounds that enter the body, suggesting that a soybean oil - enriched diet could affect one's response to drugs and environmental toxicants.

Dioxins are a group of chemically - related compounds that are persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Marilyn Black, founder of the Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI)-- a nonprofit certifier of products with low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)-- knows the pitfalls all too well: «The most common mistake we see is the purchasing of products made solely on manufacturers» claims.

«If we eliminate plastic - part painting inside cars, there is the environmental benefit of eliminating (volatile organic compounds),» says Mulholland, adding the new - car smell Americans traditionally have liked is the result of off - gassing from formaldehyde, ethylbenzene and xylene from painted parts as well as carpet, seat fabric and seat foam.