Mahsa Ranjbar, Michael A. Rotondi, Chris I. Ardern, and Jennifer L. Kuk, "The Influence of Urinary Concentrations of Organophosphate Metabolites on the Relationship between BMI and Cardiometabolic Health Risk," Journal of Obesity, 2015, DOI: 10.1155/2015/687914 ABSTRACT: The objective was to determine whether detectable…
Dirk Brändli and Sandra Reinacher, "Herbicides found in Human Urine," Ithaka Journal, 1/2012, 2012 SUMMARY: Glyphosate is the main active substance used in most commercial herbicides. It poisons not only plants, but also animals and humans. When testing for glyphosate contamination in an urban…
Nathan Raines MPH, Marvin González MD MS, Christina Wyatt MD MS, Mark Kurzrok, Christopher Pool, Tiziana Lemma, Ilana Weiss MPH, Carlos Marín, Valerio Prado, Eugenia Marcas, Karina Mayorga, Jean Franco Morales, Aurora Aragón MD PhD, Perry Sheffield MD MPH, "Risk…
Robin Mesnage, Matthew Arno, Manuela Costanzo, Manuela Malatesta, Gilles-Eric Séralini and Michael N. Antoniou, "Transcriptome profile analysis reflects rat liver and kidney damage following chronic ultra-low dose Roundup exposure," Environmental Health, 2015, 14:70, DOI 10.1186/s12940-015-0056-1. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) are the…
Julie Marc, Robert Belle, Julia Morales, Patrick Cormier, and Odile Mulner-Lorillon, "Formulated Glyphosate Activates the DNA-Response Checkpoint of the Cell Cycle Leading to the Prevention of G2/M Transition," Toxicological Sciences, 2004, 82, DOI:10.1093/TOXSCI/KFH281. ABSTRACT: A glyphosate containing pesticide impedes at 10 mM glyphosate the…
Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake, and Sisira Siribaddana, "Simultaneous exposure to multiple heavy metals and glyphosate may contribute to Sri Lankan agricultural nephropathy," BMC Nephrology, 2015, 16:103, DOI 10.1186/s12882-015-0109-2. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Sri Lankan Agricultural Nephropathy (SAN), a new form of chronic kidney disease…
Channa Jayasumana, Sarath Gunatilake, and Priyantha Senanayake, "Glyphosate, Hard Water and Nephrotoxic Metals: Are They the Culprits Behind the Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka?," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2014, 11, DOI:10.3390/IJERPH 110202125. ABSTRACT: The…
Skinner MK1, "Endocrine disruptors and epigenetic transgenerational disease etiology," Pediatric Research, 2007, 61:5 Pt 2. ABSTRACT: Exposure to an environmental factor (e.g. endocrine disruptor) during embryonic gonadal sex determination appears to be epigenetically reprogram the male germ-line and subsequently promote…
Skinner MK, Manikkam M, Haque MM, Zhang B, Savenkova MI, "Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of somatic transcriptomes and epigenetic control regions," Genome Biology, 2012, 13:10, DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-10-r91. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Environmentally induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of adult onset disease involves a variety of…
Skinner MK, Manikkam M, Tracey R, Guerrero-Bosagna C, Haque M, Nilsson EE, "Ancestral dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) exposure promotes epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of obesity," BMC Medicine, 2013, 11:228, DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-228. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Ancestral environmental exposures to a variety of environmental factors and toxicants…