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Environmental pollutants and the thyroid

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2009
Common environmental exposures may affect thyroid function in humans. Foetuses and infants are most vulnerable to these effects because they need thyroid hormone for normal neurodevelopment. Perchlorate, thiocyanate and nitrate are all competitive inhibitors of the sodium/iodine symporter (NIS) in pharmacologic doses, but their effects on human thyroid
Elizabeth N, Pearce, Lewis E, Braverman
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Fate of Environmental Pollutants

Water Environment Research, 2017
This annual review covers the literature published in 2016 on topics related to the occurrence and fate of emerging environmental pollutants in wastewater. Due to the vast amount of literature published on this topic, we have discussed only a portion of the quality research publications, due to limitation of space.
Rahul Kumar   +2 more
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Environmental pollution and allergy

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2001
Among the theories supporting the increase of allergic diseases in modern western countries during the last several decades is the concept that environmental pollutants may play a vital role. Reading this article will enable the reader to recognize the effect of different types of environmental pollution on the development, modulation, and persistence ...
J, Ring, B, Eberlein-Koenig, H, Behrendt
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Future of Environmental Pollution

Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 1996
In recent years, the concept of pollution prevention has overtaken end‐of‐pipe controls as the paradigm of choice for effecting environmental protection. Through cooperative mechanisms, significant progress Is being made to reduce or eliminate upstream processes and practices that can lead to downstream pollution. These efforts, coupled with productive
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Aerosols and environmental pollution

Naturwissenschaften, 2009
The number of publications on atmospheric aerosols has dramatically increased in recent years. This review, predominantly from a European perspective, summarizes the current state of knowledge of the role played by aerosols in environmental pollution and, in addition, highlights gaps in our current knowledge.
Colbeck, Ian, Lazaridis, Mihalis
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