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• Response to "Comment on 'Application of an in Vitro Assay to Identify Chemicals That Increase Estradiol and Progesterone Synthesis and Are Potential Breast Cancer Risk Factors'".

  Authors:Ruthann A. Rudel, Bethsaida Cardona, Alexandre Borrel, and Jennifer E. KayFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,049 words Letter to the editor 1480LWe appreciate the points raised by Burgoon and Borgert regarding our recent analysis of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) data from the high-throughput (HT) H295R screening of 656 chemicals in...

• Association between Outdoor Air Pollution Exposure and Handgrip Strength: Findings from the French CONSTANCES Study.

  Authors:Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi, Antoine Lafontaine, Jun Yang, Emeline Lequy, Fanny Artaud, Marianne Canonico, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,888 words Report 1490LIntroduction Hand grip strength (HGS) is a powerful predictor of disability, morbidity, and mortality in middle-age and elderly subjects. Available evidence on the link between poor HGS and cigarette smoking (1)...

• Evaluation of a Gene-Environment Interaction of PONI and Low-Level Nerve Agent Exposure with Gulf War Illness: A Prevalence Case-Control Study Drawn from the U.S. Military Health Survey's National Population Sample.

  Authors:Robert W. Haley, Gerald Kramer, Junhui Xiao, Jill A. Dever, and John F. TeiberFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202212,394 words Report 1900LBackground: Consensus on the etiology of 1991 Gulf War illness (GWI) has been limited by lack of objective individual- level environmental exposure information and assumed recall bias. Objectives: We investigated a...

• Invited Perspective: Causal Implications of Gene by Environment Studies Applied to Gulf War Illness.

  Authors:Marc G. Weisskop and Kimberly A. SullivanFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,453 words Report 1880LThe thirtieth anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War has just passed, and much knowledge has been gained about the etiology and pathobiology of Gulf War Illness (GWI) over this time. (1,2) However, questions still remain about...

• Hemispheres of Influence: Bridging the Disconnect between Environmental Neurotoxicology and Clinical Practice.

  Author:Charles W. SchmidtFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20223,665 words Report 1660LWilliam Mack runs a translational science laboratory focused on inflammation and oxidative stress. Years ago, this interest led him on a path toward investigating inflammatory effects of airborne particulate matter,...

• Comment on "Application of an in Vitro Assay to Identify Chemicals That Increase Estradiol and Progesterone Synthesis and Are Potential Breast Cancer Risk Factors".

  Authors:Lyle D. Burgoon and Christopher J. BorgertFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2022750 words Letter to the editor 1360LThe article by Cardona and Rudel (2021) analyzed ToxCast results for the H295R steroidogenesis assays and reported that "296 chemicals increased [estradiol] (182) or [progesterone] (185), with 71 chemicals increasing...

• Skin Protection Dilemma: Testing Detects Benzene in Some Sun Care Products.

  Author:Wendee NicoleFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2022988 words Article 1730LBenzene is a known human carcinogen, (1) so consumers should not expect to find it in personal care products. (2) Nevertheless, between April 2021 and April 2022, companies issued 11 recalls for hand sanitizers,...

• Role of OCT3 and DRP1 in the Transport of Paraquat in Astrocytes: A Mouse Study.

  Authors:Sida Han, Yiwei Feng, Min Guo, Yining Hao, Jian Sun, Yichen Zhao, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202215,132 words Report 1400LBackground: Paraquat (PQ) is a pesticide, exposure to which has been associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease; however, PQ transport mechanisms in the brain are still unclear. Our previous studies...

• Comment on "Charting a Path Forward: Assessing the Science of Chemical Risk Evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act in the Context of Recent National Academies Recommendations".

  Author:Anthony TweedaleFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2022977 words Letter to the editor 1930LMcPartland et al. (1) discussed the initial 10 risk assessments (RAs) conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the 2016 revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). They noted the...

• Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer: Evaluation of Risk Modification by Common Genetic Polymorphisms in Two Case-Control Studies.

  Authors:Laura E. Beane Freeman, Manolis Kogevinas, Kenneth P. Cantor, Cristina M. Villanueva, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Oscar Florez-Vargas, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20225,496 words Report 1720LBackground: By-products are formed when disinfectants react with organic matter in source water. The most common class of disinfection byproducts, trihalomethanes (THMs), have been linked to bladder cancer. Several...

• Strengthening Causal Inference in Exposomics Research: Application of Genetic Data and Methods.

  Authors:Christy L. Avery, Annie Green Howard, Anna F. Ballou, Victoria L. Buchanan, Jason M. Collins, Carolina G. Downie, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20229,360 words Report 1990LSummary: Advances in technologies to measure a broad set of exposures have led to a range of exposome research efforts. Yet, these efforts have insufficiently integrated methods that incorporate genetic data to...

• Invited Perspective: The Promise of Wastewater Monitoring for Infectious Disease Surveillance.

  Author:Marlene K. WolfeFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,800 words Report 1810LWastewater provides a naturally composited biological sample that includes pathogens shed in feces, urine, blood, sputum, and vomit and that can be used to infer information about disease occurrence in the community....

• Systematic Evidence Map for Over One Hundred and Fifty Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).

  Authors:Laura M. Carlson, Michelle Angrish, Avanti V. Shirke, Elizabeth G. Radke, Brittany Schulz, Andrew Kraft, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202211,613 words Report 1550LBackground: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetic (man-made) chemicals widely used in consumer products and industrial processes. Thousands of distinct PFAS exist in commerce. The 2019...

• Screening of Organophosphate Flame Retardants with Placentation-Disrupting Effects in Human Trophoblast Organoid Model and Characterization of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Mice.

  Authors:Chenke Xu, Haojia Ma, Fumei Gao, Chenhao Zhang, Wenxin Flu, Yingting Jia, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202212,030 words Report 1530LBackground: Abnormal placental development may result in adverse pregnancy outcomes and metabolic diseases in adulthood; however, it remains unknown whether and how xenobiotics affect human placentation. Objectives:...

• Marks and Mechanisms: Unraveling Potential Health Impacts of PFAS via DNA Methylation.

  Author:Silke SchmidtFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,494 words Report 1840LHuman exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is ubiquitous. (1) Prenatal and early-life exposures to PFAS have been consistently associated with adverse health effects in children, especially metabolic...

• Use of Sewage Surveillance for COVID-19: A Large-Scale Evidence-Based Program in Hong Kong.

  Authors:Yu Deng, Xiawan Zheng, Xiaoqing Xu, Ho-kwong Chui, Wai-kwan Lai, Shuxian Li, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20227,294 words Report 1630LBackground: Sewage surveillance, by detecting SARS-CoV-2 virus circulation at the community level, has the potential to supplement individual surveillance for COVID-19. However, to date, there have been no reports about...

• Erratum: "Targeting the Macrophage: Immune Cells May Be the Key to Phthalate-Induced Liver Toxicity".

  Author:Silke SchmidtFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202243 words Correction notice, B... 830LEnviron Health Perspect. 130(3):034003 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11026 The image attribution in this article was incorrectly listed as [C] Prof. P.M. Motta, Sapienza University of Rome/Science. The correct...

• Household Air Pollution Concentrations after Liquefied Petroleum Gas Interventions in Rural Peru: Findings from a One-Year Randomized Controlled Trial Followed by a One-Year Pragmatic Crossover Trial.

  Authors:Magdalena Fandino-Del-Rio, Josiah L. Kephart, Kendra N. Williams, Timothy Shade, Temi Adekunle, Kyle Steenland, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202213,021 words Report 1530LBackground: Household air pollution (HAP) from biomass fuel combustion remains a leading environmental risk factor for morbidity worldwide. Objective: Measure the effect of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) interventions on...

• On the Utility of ToxCast-Based Predictive Models to Evaluate Potential Metabolic Disruption by Environmental Chemicals.

  Authors:Dayne L. Filer, Kate Hoffman, Robert M. Sargis, Leonardo Trasande, and Christopher D. KassotisFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 202210,779 words Report 1520LBackground: Research suggests environmental contaminants can impact metabolic health; however, high costs prohibit in vivo screening of putative metabolic disruptors. High-throughput screening programs, such as ToxCast,...

• Invited Perspective: The Promise of Fit-for-Purpose Systematic Evidence Maps for Supporting Regulatory Health Assessment.

  Authors:Katherine E. Pelch and Carol F. KwiatkowskiFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 130, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20221,914 words Report 1600LThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is charged with the Herculean task of critically assessing the safety of tens of thousands of chemicals. New methods that support improved efficiency and effectiveness...