Pesticides: an update of human exposure and toxicity

S Mostafalou, M Abdollahi - Archives of toxicology, 2017 - Springer
Pesticides are a family of compounds which have brought many benefits to mankind in the
agricultural, industrial, and health areas, but their toxicities in both humans and animals …

MLL-rearranged leukemias—an update on science and clinical approaches

AC Winters, KM Bernt - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The mixed-lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1) gene (now renamed Lysine [K]-specific
MethylTransferase 2A or KMT2A) on chromosome 11q23 is disrupted in a unique group of …

Pesticides and human chronic diseases: evidences, mechanisms, and perspectives

S Mostafalou, M Abdollahi - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2013 - Elsevier
Along with the wide use of pesticides in the world, the concerns over their health impacts are
rapidly growing. There is a huge body of evidence on the relation between exposure to …

Review of endocrine disorders associated with environmental toxicants and possible involved mechanisms

F Maqbool, S Mostafalou, H Bahadar, M Abdollahi - Life sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are released into environment from different sources.
They are mainly used in packaging industries, pesticides and food constituents. Clinical …

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

CH Pui, MV Relling, JR Downing - New England Journal of …, 2004 - Mass Medical Soc
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provided by Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin The New England Journal of Medicine …

Risk factors for acute leukemia in children: a review

M Belson, B Kingsley, A Holmes - Environmental health …, 2007 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Although overall incidence is rare, leukemia is the most common type of childhood cancer. It
accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in children younger than 15 years. Within this …

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

CH Pui, WE Evans - New England Journal of Medicine, 1998 - Mass Medical Soc
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is diagnosed in 3000 to 4000 persons in the United
States each year; two thirds of them are children. 1, 2 The current rate of cure of nearly 80 …

Infection, immune responses and the aetiology of childhood leukaemia

M Greaves - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
Childhood leukaemia is the principal subtype of paediatric cancer and, despite success in
treatment, its causes remain enigmatic. A plethora of candidate environmental exposures …

Leukemia in twins: lessons in natural history

MF Greaves, AT Maia, JL Wiemels, AM Ford - Blood, 2003 - ashpublications.org
Identical infant twins with concordant leukemia were first described in 1882, and since that
time many such pairs of infants and older children have been described. It has long been …

Origins of chromosome translocations in childhood leukaemia

MF Greaves, J Wiemels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
Chromosome translocations are often early or initiating events in leukaemogenesis,
occurring prenatally in most cases of childhood leukaemia. Although these genetic changes …