Health effects from long-range transported contaminants in Arctic top predators: an integrated review based on studies of polar bears and relevant model species

C Sonne - Environment international, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of this review is to provide a thorough overview of the health effects from the
complexed biomagnified mixture of long-range transported industrial organochlorines …

[HTML][HTML] State of knowledge on current exposure, fate and potential health effects of contaminants in polar bears from the circumpolar Arctic

H Routti, TC Atwood, T Bechshoft, A Boltunov… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is among the Arctic species exposed to the highest
concentrations of long-range transported bioaccumulative contaminants, such as …

Interactions between chemical and climate stressors: A role for mechanistic toxicology in assessing climate change risks

MJ Hooper, GT Ankley, DA Cristol… - Environmental …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Incorporation of global climate change (GCC) effects into assessments of chemical risk and
injury requires integrated examinations of chemical and nonchemical stressors …

Exposure to novel brominated flame retardants and organophosphate esters and associations with thyroid cancer risk: A case–control study in eastern China

M Liu, A Li, L Meng, G Zhang, X Guan… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Novel brominated flame retardant (NBFR) and organophosphate ester (OPE) exposure may
engender adverse effects on human health. However, present epidemiological information …

Condition indices for conservation: new uses for evolving tools

RD Stevenson, WA Woods Jr - Integrative and comparative …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Biologists have developed a wide range of morphological, biochemical and physiological
metrics to assess the health and, in particular, the energetic status of individual animals …

[HTML][HTML] The adverse health effects of increasing microplastic pollution on aquatic mammals

G Nabi, S Ahmad, S Ullah, S Zada, M Sarfraz… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs), an emerging ubiquitous pollutant in the aquatic ecosystem, pose
serious health concerns to the survival of aquatic fauna, especially top predators (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure of polychlorinated biphenyls via indoor dust particles and their health risks in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

MRI Rayhan, MA Akbor, A Nahar… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study is a pioneer evaluation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) within the indoor
environment of the megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh. It assessed the occurrence, distribution …

Relationship between blood trihalomethane concentrations and serum thyroid function measures in US adults

Y Sun, PF **a, TIM Korevaar, V Mustieles… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Toxicological studies show that exposure to disinfection byproducts, including
trihalomethanes (THMs), negatively affects thyroid function; however, few epidemiological …

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated biphenyls in indoor dust from electronic repair workshops in southern Nigeria: implications for onsite human …

CMA Iwegbue, SB Eyengho, FE Egobueze… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The concentrations of 9 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and 28 polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs), including the 7 indicator PCBs and 12 dioxin-like PCBs, were determined …

Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants and metabolites in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska, Canada, East Greenland, and Svalbard: 1996− 2002

J Verreault, DCG Muir, RJ Norstrom, I Stirling… - Science of the total …, 2005 - Elsevier
A suite of chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants (CHCs) including organochlorine
pesticides (OCPs) and by-products, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and methyl sulfone …