Perspectives

Editorial

• The National Center for Toxicogenomics: Using New Technologies to Inform Mechanistic Toxicology
  Raymond W. Tennant
  p. A 8

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Correspondence

• Detection of Excess Arsenic-Related Cancer Risks
• Carcinogenicity of Trichloroethylene
• N-Acetyltransferase 2 Polymorphism in Patients with Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome
• Use of Reporter Genes and Vertebrate DNA Motifs in Transgenic Zebrafish as Sentinels for Assessing Aquatic Pollution
  p. A 12

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Environews

Forum

• New Cell Growth
• A Disservice to the Environment?
• The Economics of Ethanol
• Switching to Switchgrass
• EHPnet: Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
• The Beat
  p. A 16

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NIEHS News

• New Centers to Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disorders
  p. A 20

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Focus

• Petroleum: Possibilities in the Pipeline
  p. A 22

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Spheres of Influence

• Renewable Energy: Empowering the Developing World
  p. A 30

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Innovations

• The Gas Is Greener . . .
  p. A 36

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Science Selections

• Cooking Up Problems for Babies
• Polluting Your Internal Environment
• East or West, Cardiac Arrest
  p. A 42

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Commentaries

• Where the Boys Aren't: Dioxin and the Sex Ratio
  Piet Hein Jongbloet, Nel Roeleveld, and Hans M. M. Groenewoud
  p. 1

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• Starlink Corn: A Risk Analysis
  Luca Bucchini and Lynn R. Goldman
  p. 5

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Research

Review

• Dioxins and Endometriosis: A Plausible Hypothesis
  Linda S. Birnbaum and Audrey M. Cummings
  p. 15

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Articles

• Exposure Assessment to Dioxins from the Use of Tampons and Diapers
  Michael J. DeVito and Arnold Schecter
  p. 23

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• Prediction of Estrogen Receptor Binding for 58,000 Chemicals Using an Integrated System of a Tree-Based Model with Structural Alerts
  Huixiao Hong, Weida Tong, Hong Fang, Leming Shi, Qian Xie, Jie Wu, Roger Perkins, John D. Walker, William Branham, and Daniel M. Sheehan
  p. 29

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• Attenuation of Both Apoptotic and Necrotic Actions of Cadmium by Bcl-2
  Masami Ishido, Rieko Ohtsubo, Tatsumi Adachi, and Manabu Kunimoto
  p. 37

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• Air Conditioning and Source-Specific Particles as Modifiers of the Effect of PM₁₀ on Hospital Admissions for Heart and Lung Disease
  Nicole A. H. Janssen, Joel Schwartz, Antonella Zanobetti, and Helen H. Suh
  p. 43

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• Implanted Depleted Uranium Fragments Cause Soft Tissue Sarcomas in the Muscles of Rats
  Fletcher F. Hahn, Raymond A. Guilmette, and Mark D. Hoover
  p. 51

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• Air Pollution and Daily Mortality: A Hypothesis Concerning the Role of Impaired Homeostasis
  Robert Frank and Clarke Tankersley
  p. 61

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• A Tale of Two Cities: Effects of Air Pollution on Hospital Admissions in Hong Kong and London Compared
  Chit-Ming Wong, Richard W Atkinson, H. Ross Anderson, Anthony Johnson Hedley, Stefan Ma, Patsy Yuen-Kwan Chau, and Tai-Hing Lam
  p. 67

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• The Effect of Ozone Exposure on the Ability of Human Surfactant Protein A Variants to Stimulate Cytokine Production
  Guirong Wang, Todd M. Umstead, David S. Phelps, Hamid Al-Mondhiry, and Joanna Floros
  p. 79

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• A Consistent Approach for the Application of Pharmacokinetic Modeling in Cancer and Noncancer Risk Assessment
  Harvey J. Clewell, III, Melvin E. Andersen, and Hugh A. Barton
  p. 85

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• The Characterization of Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation in Inactivating Airborne Microorganisms
  Gwangpyo Ko, Melvin W. First, and Harriet A. Burge
  p. 95

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Children's Health

• The Effect of Interior Lead Hazard Controls on Children's Blood Lead Concentrations: A Systematic Evaluation
  Erin Haynes, Bruce P. Lanphear, Ellen Tohn, Nick Farr, and George G. Rhoads
  p. 103

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• Birth Weight and Exposure to Kitchen Wood Smoke during Pregnancy in Rural Guatemala
  Erick Boy, Nigel Bruce, and Hern‡n Delgado
  p. 109

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Grand Rounds

• Blood Lead Concentration after a Shotgun Accident
  Lars Gerhardsson, Lars Dahlin, Richard Knebel, and Andrejs Schültz
  p. 115

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Announcements

• Extramurally Speaking
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• Fellowships, Grants & Awards [HTML] [ Download PDF] p. A 46
• Career Opportunities [HTML] [ Download PDF]p. A 48
• Calendar p. A 54
• New Books p.A 56