Exposure to benzene, occupational stress, and reduced birth weight.

PubWeight™: 0.92‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMC 1739869)

Published in Occup Environ Med on October 01, 2000

Authors

D Chen1, S I Cho, C Chen, X Wang, A I Damokosh, L Ryan, T J Smith, D C Christiani, X Xu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, FXB-101 Boston, MA 02115-6096, USA.

Articles cited by this

Determinants of low birth weight: methodological assessment and meta-analysis. Bull World Health Organ (1987) 16.26

The contribution of low birth weight to infant mortality and childhood morbidity. N Engl J Med (1985) 12.23

Association between air pollution and low birth weight: a community-based study. Environ Health Perspect (1997) 3.32

The preterm prediction study: maternal stress is associated with spontaneous preterm birth at less than thirty-five weeks' gestation. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1996) 3.09

A placental clock controlling the length of human pregnancy. Nat Med (1995) 2.86

Pregnancy outcome following gestational exposure to organic solvents: a prospective controlled study. JAMA (1999) 2.47

The association between prenatal stress and infant birth weight and gestational age at birth: a prospective investigation. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1993) 2.44

Acute effects of total suspended particles and sulfur dioxides on preterm delivery: a community-based cohort study. Arch Environ Health (1996) 2.39

Agricultural work during pregnancy and selected structural malformations in Finland. Epidemiology (1995) 2.37

Prenatal maternal stress and prematurity: a prospective study of socioeconomically disadvantaged women. Health Psychol (1992) 1.92

Blood concentrations of volatile organic compounds in a nonoccupationally exposed US population and in groups with suspected exposure. Clin Chem (1994) 1.79

Smoking: a risk factor for spontaneous abortion. N Engl J Med (1977) 1.73

Psychosocial factors and pregnancy outcome: a review with emphasis on methodological issues. J Psychosom Res (1995) 1.57

Maternal stress, HPA activity, and fetal/infant outcome. Ann N Y Acad Sci (1997) 1.43

Effects of parental exposure to solvents on pregnancy outcome. J Occup Environ Med (1995) 1.16

The association between weight, physical activity, and stress and variation in the length of the menstrual cycle. Am J Epidemiol (1991) 1.12

Reduced fertility among women exposed to organic solvents. Am J Ind Med (1995) 1.09

Parental cigarette smoking and the risk of spontaneous abortion. Am J Epidemiol (1992) 1.07

Parental occupation and birth outcome in an agricultural community. Scand J Work Environ Health (1986) 1.07

Association of petrochemical exposure with spontaneous abortion. Occup Environ Med (1998) 1.00

Menstrual function in workers exposed to toluene. Br J Ind Med (1992) 0.92

Maternal caffeine consumption and spontaneous abortion: a prospective cohort study. Epidemiology (1996) 0.91

On the embryotoxic effects of benzene and its alkyl derivatives in mice, rats and rabbits. Arch Toxicol Suppl (1985) 0.90

Male reproductive effects of solvent and fuel exposure during aircraft maintenance. Reprod Toxicol (1999) 0.86

Distinct actions of benzene and its metabolites on nitric oxide production by bone marrow leukocytes. J Leukoc Biol (1995) 0.85

Oxidative modifications produced in HL-60 cells on exposure to benzene metabolites. J Appl Toxicol (1996) 0.84

Occupational Stress and Dysmenorrhea in Women Working in Cotton Textile Mills. Int J Occup Environ Health (1995) 0.83

Validation of an in vivo developmental toxicity screen in the mouse. Teratog Carcinog Mutagen (1986) 0.79

Investing in prevention: opportunities to prevent disease and reduce health care costs by identifying environmental and occupational causes of noncancer disease. Toxicol Ind Health (1994) 0.78

In vitro assessment of individual and interactive effects of aromatic hydrocarbons on embryonic development of the rat. Reprod Toxicol (1994) 0.78

Organic-solvent water pollution and low birth weight in Michigan. Soc Biol (1992) 0.78

Articles by these authors

The sequence of the human genome. Science (2001) 101.55

The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science (2000) 74.32

An association between air pollution and mortality in six U.S. cities. N Engl J Med (1993) 38.84

Cytochrome c and dATP-dependent formation of Apaf-1/caspase-9 complex initiates an apoptotic protease cascade. Cell (1997) 24.57

High resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation using comparative genomic hybridization to microarrays. Nat Genet (1998) 21.52

Characterization of an avian influenza A (H5N1) virus isolated from a child with a fatal respiratory illness. Science (1998) 19.40

Induction of apoptotic program in cell-free extracts: requirement for dATP and cytochrome c. Cell (1996) 16.73

Prevention of apoptosis by Bcl-2: release of cytochrome c from mitochondria blocked. Science (1997) 16.09

Interleukin-13: central mediator of allergic asthma. Science (1998) 14.05

Bid, a Bcl2 interacting protein, mediates cytochrome c release from mitochondria in response to activation of cell surface death receptors. Cell (1998) 13.87

Angiostatin: a novel angiogenesis inhibitor that mediates the suppression of metastases by a Lewis lung carcinoma. Cell (1994) 13.76

Coupling of stress in the ER to activation of JNK protein kinases by transmembrane protein kinase IRE1. Science (2000) 13.62

Apaf-1, a human protein homologous to C. elegans CED-4, participates in cytochrome c-dependent activation of caspase-3. Cell (1997) 12.83

Orchestrated transcription of key pathways in Arabidopsis by the circadian clock. Science (2000) 12.35

Smac, a mitochondrial protein that promotes cytochrome c-dependent caspase activation by eliminating IAP inhibition. Cell (2000) 11.90

CHOP is implicated in programmed cell death in response to impaired function of the endoplasmic reticulum. Genes Dev (1998) 11.86

Purified hematopoietic stem cells can differentiate into hepatocytes in vivo. Nat Med (2000) 11.35

Implementing a unified approach to family-based tests of association. Genet Epidemiol (2000) 10.96

Tat-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes select for SIV escape variants during resolution of primary viraemia. Nature (2000) 9.80

Interferon alfa-2b adjuvant therapy of high-risk resected cutaneous melanoma: the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Trial EST 1684. J Clin Oncol (1996) 9.68

The family based association test method: strategies for studying general genotype--phenotype associations. Eur J Hum Genet (2001) 9.09

MyD88 is an adaptor protein in the hToll/IL-1 receptor family signaling pathways. Mol Cell (1998) 8.73

Biochemical pathways of caspase activation during apoptosis. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol (1999) 8.21

SREBP-1, a basic-helix-loop-helix-leucine zipper protein that controls transcription of the low density lipoprotein receptor gene. Cell (1993) 6.95

An APAF-1.cytochrome c multimeric complex is a functional apoptosome that activates procaspase-9. J Biol Chem (1999) 6.88

HOLE: a program for the analysis of the pore dimensions of ion channel structural models. J Mol Graph (1996) 6.48

Cell transformation by the superoxide-generating oxidase Mox1. Nature (1999) 6.23

Endonuclease G is an apoptotic DNase when released from mitochondria. Nature (2001) 6.20

DFF, a heterodimeric protein that functions downstream of caspase-3 to trigger DNA fragmentation during apoptosis. Cell (1997) 5.95

Identification of a point mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene of Kenyan Anopheles gambiae associated with resistance to DDT and pyrethroids. Insect Mol Biol (2000) 5.81

Requirement for Ku80 in growth and immunoglobulin V(D)J recombination. Nature (1996) 5.80

Speech recognition in noise as a function of the number of spectral channels: comparison of acoustic hearing and cochlear implants. J Acoust Soc Am (2001) 5.75

The Ebola virus VP35 protein functions as a type I IFN antagonist. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2000) 5.46

Genome-wide expression profiling of mid-gestation placenta and embryo using a 15,000 mouse developmental cDNA microarray. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2000) 5.38

DNA microarray-mediated transcriptional profiling of the Escherichia coli response to hydrogen peroxide. J Bacteriol (2001) 5.35

A new bacteriophage P1-derived vector for the propagation of large human DNA fragments. Nat Genet (1994) 5.34

Positive regulatory interactions of the HIS4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol (1984) 5.08

Effects of matrix metalloproteinase-9 gene knock-out on the proteolysis of blood-brain barrier and white matter components after cerebral ischemia. J Neurosci (2001) 4.99

Genetic diversity among Botulinum Neurotoxin-producing clostridial strains. J Bacteriol (2006) 4.75

Interleukin-13 induces tissue fibrosis by selectively stimulating and activating transforming growth factor beta(1). J Exp Med (2001) 4.71

Primary structure of two COOH-terminal hexapeptides from rabbit muscle aldolase: a difference in the structure of the alpha and beta subunits. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (1970) 4.68

SREBP-2, a second basic-helix-loop-helix-leucine zipper protein that stimulates transcription by binding to a sterol regulatory element. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1993) 4.61

High- and low-dose interferon alfa-2b in high-risk melanoma: first analysis of intergroup trial E1690/S9111/C9190. J Clin Oncol (2000) 4.60

POWER_SAGE: comparing statistical tests for SAGE experiments. Bioinformatics (2000) 4.56

The relative importance of T cell subsets in immunity and immunopathology of airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice. J Exp Med (2001) 4.50

Noninvasive imaging of in vivo blood flow velocity using optical Doppler tomography. Opt Lett (1997) 4.48

Cloning of the essential myotonic dystrophy region and mapping of the putative defect. Nature (1992) 4.45

The site of attachment in human rhinovirus 14 for antiviral agents that inhibit uncoating. Science (1986) 4.40

SU5416 is a potent and selective inhibitor of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (Flk-1/KDR) that inhibits tyrosine kinase catalysis, tumor vascularization, and growth of multiple tumor types. Cancer Res (1999) 4.23

Rapid transition of cardiac myocytes from hyperplasia to hypertrophy during postnatal development. J Mol Cell Cardiol (1996) 4.11

Regulation of the calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphatase, calcineurin. J Biol Chem (1998) 4.02

Hospital and physician volume or specialization and outcomes in cancer treatment: importance in quality of cancer care. J Clin Oncol (2000) 4.01

Homologs of gp91phox: cloning and tissue expression of Nox3, Nox4, and Nox5. Gene (2001) 3.97

Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia due to atrioventricular nodal reentry, by radiofrequency catheter ablation of slow-pathway conduction. N Engl J Med (1992) 3.95

Interstitial cells of Cajal mediate cholinergic neurotransmission from enteric motor neurons. J Neurosci (2000) 3.95

Association of the Arabidopsis CTR1 Raf-like kinase with the ETR1 and ERS ethylene receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1998) 3.94

Multiple transcription-factor genes are early targets of phytochrome A signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 3.91

The three-dimensional structure of canine parvovirus and its functional implications. Science (1991) 3.87

Language comprehension in language-learning impaired children improved with acoustically modified speech. Science (1996) 3.84

The peptide antibiotic LL-37/hCAP-18 is expressed in epithelia of the human lung where it has broad antimicrobial activity at the airway surface. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1998) 3.83

Efficacy of intravenous continuous infusion of fluorouracil compared with bolus administration in advanced colorectal cancer. J Clin Oncol (1998) 3.79

Multiple pathways cooperate in the suppression of genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature (2001) 3.77

Functional interaction between InsP3 receptors and store-operated Htrp3 channels. Nature (1998) 3.68

Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements. Nat Photonics (2012) 3.68

Structural basis of IAP recognition by Smac/DIABLO. Nature (2001) 3.66

Nucleocapsid and glycoprotein organization in an enveloped virus. Cell (1995) 3.66

Polymerase chain reaction detection of 8 putative periodontal pathogens in subgingival plaque of gingivitis and advanced periodontitis lesions. Oral Microbiol Immunol (1996) 3.65

Angiostatin induces and sustains dormancy of human primary tumors in mice. Nat Med (1996) 3.64

Characterization of the structure and function of a new mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38beta). J Biol Chem (1996) 3.63

Temporal and rate representations of time-varying signals in the auditory cortex of awake primates. Nat Neurosci (2001) 3.62

SGS1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologue of BLM and WRN, suppresses genome instability and homeologous recombination. Nat Genet (2001) 3.60

Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO. Nature (2000) 3.54

Human beta-defensin 2 is a salt-sensitive peptide antibiotic expressed in human lung. J Clin Invest (1998) 3.51

Dark is a Drosophila homologue of Apaf-1/CED-4 and functions in an evolutionarily conserved death pathway. Nat Cell Biol (1999) 3.45

Association of Rab25 and Rab11a with the apical recycling system of polarized Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. Mol Biol Cell (1999) 3.45

A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 3.41

Cytochrome c deficiency causes embryonic lethality and attenuates stress-induced apoptosis. Cell (2000) 3.39

Myocyte death in the failing human heart is gender dependent. Circ Res (1999) 3.38

2000 update of recommendations for the use of hematopoietic colony-stimulating factors: evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines. American Society of Clinical Oncology Growth Factors Expert Panel. J Clin Oncol (2000) 3.38

The role of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) in apoptosis induced by ultraviolet C and gamma radiation. Duration of JNK activation may determine cell death and proliferation. J Biol Chem (1996) 3.38

Deficient cerebellar long-term depression and impaired motor learning in mGluR1 mutant mice. Cell (1994) 3.35

Bestrophin, the product of the Best vitelliform macular dystrophy gene (VMD2), localizes to the basolateral plasma membrane of the retinal pigment epithelium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2000) 3.32

Association between air pollution and low birth weight: a community-based study. Environ Health Perspect (1997) 3.32

Risk of internal cancers from arsenic in drinking water. Environ Health Perspect (2000) 3.29

Selective stimulation of bifidobacteria in the human colon by oligofructose and inulin. Gastroenterology (1995) 3.26

The prosurvival Bcl-2 homolog Bfl-1/A1 is a direct transcriptional target of NF-kappaB that blocks TNFalpha-induced apoptosis. Genes Dev (1999) 3.25

Abnormal angiogenesis but intact hematopoietic potential in TGF-beta type I receptor-deficient mice. EMBO J (2001) 3.24

TGF-beta/Smad3 signals repress chondrocyte hypertrophic differentiation and are required for maintaining articular cartilage. J Cell Biol (2001) 3.22

FGFR-3 and FGFR-4 function cooperatively to direct alveogenesis in the murine lung. Development (1998) 3.21

Inter-RNA interaction of phage phi29 pRNA to form a hexameric complex for viral DNA transportation. Mol Cell (1998) 3.21

Potent neutralization of botulinum neurotoxin by recombinant oligoclonal antibody. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 3.16

Assignment of the membrane attachment, DNA binding, and transcriptional activation domains of sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 (SREBP-1). J Biol Chem (1994) 3.09

Telling the truth about terminal cancer. JAMA (1998) 3.07

Isolation of two new members of the NF-AT gene family and functional characterization of the NF-AT proteins. Immunity (1995) 3.07

Nuclear protein that binds sterol regulatory element of low density lipoprotein receptor promoter. I. Identification of the protein and delineation of its target nucleotide sequence. J Biol Chem (1993) 3.04

Preserved acute pain and reduced neuropathic pain in mice lacking PKCgamma. Science (1997) 2.98

Gene expression profiles predict complete pathologic response to neoadjuvant paclitaxel and fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy in breast cancer. J Clin Oncol (2004) 2.95

The effects of mercaptoethanol and of peritoneal macrophages on the antibody-forming capacity of nonadherent mouse spleen cells in vitro. J Exp Med (1972) 2.95

Overexpression of insulin-like growth factor-1 in mice protects from myocyte death after infarction, attenuating ventricular dilation, wall stress, and cardiac hypertrophy. J Clin Invest (1997) 2.93