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Mouse skin tumorigenicity studies of indoor coal and wood combustion emissions from homes of residents in Xuan Wei, China with high lung cancer mortality

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Increased DNA alterations in atherosclerotic lesions of individuals lacking the GSTM1 genotype

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DNA adduct and tumor formations in rats after intratracheal administration of the urban air pollutant 3-nitrobenzanthrone

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Biomonitoring human exposure to environmental carcinogenic chemicals

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The elimination of 1-hydroxypyrene in the urine of the general population and workers with different occupational exposures to PAH

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Chemical and Biological Characterization of Products of Incomplete Combustion from the Simulated Field Burning of Agricultural Plastic

1989 • 30 citations

³²P-Postlabeling and HPLC separation of DNA adducts formed by diesel exhaust extracts in vitro and in mouse skin and lung after topical treatment

1995 • 29 citations

Teplice Program : impact of air pollution on human health

2001 • 29 citations

The possible involvement of somatic mutations in the development of atherosclerotic plaques

1991 • 28 citations

Studies using specific biomarkers for human exposure assessment to exogenous and endogenous chemical agents

1999 • 28 citations

Skin carcinogenesis studies of emission extracts.

1982 • 27 citations

DNA adducts and human atherosclerotic lesions

2001 • 27 citations

Mechanisms of Environmental Mutagenesis-Carcinogenesis

1990 • 27 citations

Detection and comparison of DNA adducts after in vitro and in vivo diesel emission exposures.

1993 • 27 citations

Inhalation exposure and risk from mobile source air toxics in future years

2006 • 26 citations

Mutagenic and carcinogenic potency of extracts of diesel and related environmental emissions: In vitro mutagenesis and oncogenic transformation

1981 • 26 citations

DNA and protein adducts

1995 • 25 citations

Measurement of mutagenic emissions from the incineration of the pesticide Dinoseb during application of combustion modifications

1991 • 25 citations

EPA studies on the toxicological effects of inhaled diesel engine emissions.

1982 • 24 citations

Production of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates by Human Macrophages Exposed to Soot Particles and Asbestos Fibers and Increase in NF-kappa B p50/p105 mRNA

1999 • 24 citations

32P-postlabeling analysis of DNA adducts in human sperm cells from smokers and nonsmokers.

1993 • 23 citations

Chemical and biological characterization of emissions from a cereal straw burning furnace

1983 • 22 citations

Environmental Causes of Lung Cancer

2004 • 22 citations

A tale of two diesels.

2004 • 21 citations

Lung Carcinogenesis by Diesel Exhaust Particles and the Carcinogenic Mechanism Via Active Oxygens

2000 • 21 citations

Results of an interlaboratory trial of 32P-postlabelling.

1993 • 21 citations

Evaluation of a personal air sampler for twenty-four hour collection of fine particles and semivolatile organics1

1999 • 21 citations

Bioassay-Directed Chemical Analysis of Organic Extracts of Emissions from a Laboratory-Scale Incinerator: Combustion of Surrogate Compounds

1992 • 21 citations

A study on genotoxicity of cooking fumes from rapeseed oil.

1992 • 21 citations

Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer

1993 • 20 citations

Development of source testing, analytical, and mutagenicity bioassay procedures for evaluating emissions from municipal and hospital waste combustors.

1992 • 20 citations

Mutagenicity of K-region derivatives of 1-nitropyrene; remarkable activity of 1- and 3-nitro-5H-phenanthro[4,5-bcd]pyran-5-one

1986 • 19 citations

Exposure biomarkers for the study of toxicological impact on carcinogenic processes.

2004 • 19 citations

Development of a Comparative Potency Method for Cancer Risk Assessment of Complex Mixtures Using Short-Term in Vivo and in Vitro Bioassays

1985 • 19 citations

Origins of carbonaceous aerosol in Denver and Albuquerque during winter

1985 • 18 citations

Mutagenic and carcinogenic potency of extracts of diesel and related environmental emissions: Summary and discussion of the results

1981 • 17 citations

A Comparative Potency Method for Cancer Risk Assessment: Clarification of the Rationale, Theoretical Basis, and Application to Diesel Particulate Emissions*

1983 • 17 citations

Emerging Methodologies for Assessment of Complex Mixtures: Application of Bioassays in the Integrated Air Cancer Project

1989 • 17 citations

Molecular epidemiology and prevention of cancer.

1995 • 15 citations

Assessment of passive and transplacental exposure to tobacco smoke.

1988 • 15 citations

Wood Smoke Impacted Air: Mutagenicity and Chemical Analysis of Ambient Air in a Residential Area of Juneau, Alaska

1988 • 14 citations

Monitoring Congenital Anomalies in Populations Exposed to Environmental Mutagens

1990 • 13 citations

Mutagenicity of combustion emissions from a biomedical waste incinerator

1990 • 13 citations

Pulmonary Functions of School Children in Highly Polluted Northern Bohemia

1997 • 12 citations

Application of Staged Combustion and Reburning to the Co-Firing of Nitrogen-Containing Wastes

1991 • 12 citations

Mutagenic activity and PAH-analysis of airborne particles from a woodheating community in Norway

1985 • 12 citations

Evidence for oxidative metabolism in the genotoxicity of the atmospheric reaction product 2-nitronaphthalene in human lymphoblastoid cell lines

1999 • 12 citations

Sources of Mutagenic Activity in Urban Fine Particles

1990 • 12 citations

Epidemiological Evidence on Indoor Air Pollution and Cancer

1993 • 11 citations

Evaluation of fly ash collection methods for short-term bioassay studies of fluidized-bed coal combustion

1984 • 11 citations

Influence of GSTM1 and NAT2 genotypes on the relationship between personal exposure to PAH and biomarkers of internal dose

1998 • 10 citations

Future research directions to characterize environmental mutagens in highly polluted area.

1996 • 9 citations

Short-term carcinogenesis and mutagenesis bioassays of unregulated automotive emissions.

1981 • 7 citations

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in smoke aerosol of domestic stoves burning wood and coal

1986 • 7 citations

Use of Urinary PAH Metabolites to Assess PAH Exposure Intervention among Coke Oven Workers

2000 • 6 citations

Mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of complex combustion emissions: Emerging molecular data to improve risk assessment

1995 • 6 citations

Biomarkers, low-dose carcinogenesis and dietary exposures.

1997 • 4 citations

Contribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Other Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds to the Carcinogenicity of Combustion Source and Air Pollution

1991 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations