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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Jouni T TuomistoSummaryAffiliation: National Public Health Institute Country: Finland Publications
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2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced anorexia and wasting syndrome in rats: aggravation after ventromedial hypothalamic lesionJ T Tuomisto
National Public Health Institute, Department of Toxicology, Kuopio, Finland
Eur J Pharmacol 293:309-17. 1995..Thus, TCDD seems to affect the same regulation chain that is involved in the lesioning of the ventromedial hypothalamus. TCDD might serve as a tool in studying different mechanisms of long-term food intake and body weight regulation...
An economic way of reducing health, environmental, and other pressures of urban traffic: a decision analysis on trip aggregationJouni T Tuomisto
Centre for Environmental Health Risk Analysis, National Public Health Institute KTL, PO Box 95, FI 70701, Finland
BMC Public Health 5:123. 2005..Nonetheless, automobiles are crucial for the functions of the modern society. Most proposals for sustainable traffic solutions face major political opposition, economical consequences, or technical problems...
Soft-tissue sarcoma and dioxin: A case-control studyJouni T Tuomisto
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, PO Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Int J Cancer 108:893-900. 2004..The results imply that dioxin does not increase the risk of soft-tissue sarcoma at the present population levels...
Adult 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) exposure and effects on male reproductive organs in three differentially TCDD-susceptible rat linesUlla Simanainen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, P O Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Sci 81:401-7. 2004..The fact that the influence of resistance alleles on spermatogenesis is different from that on androgenic status indicates that the effect of TCDD on sperm numbers is not fully related to decreased serum testosterone...
Differences in acute toxicity syndromes of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and 1,2,3,4,7,8-hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in ratsMarjo Niittynen
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, PO Box 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicology 235:39-51. 2007....
Postnatal development of resistance to short-term high-dose toxic effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in TCDD-resistant and -semiresistant ratsUlla Simanainen
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 196:11-9. 2004..This difference in the time course of resistance development suggests that there are basic differences in pathways mediating resistance in lines A and B rats...
Dose-response analysis of short-term effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in three differentially susceptible rat linesUlla Simanainen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, P O Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 187:128-36. 2003..Both H/W-type resistance alleles also decreased the potency of TCDD. However, the potency differences in short-term toxicity seem not to explain, at least alone, the differences seen in acute lethality among the rat lines...
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls in the general population in FinlandHannu Kiviranta
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, P O Box 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Chemosphere 60:854-69. 2005..Age, lactation, place of residence, and fish consumption frequencies were significant predictors in the models...
Pattern of male reproductive system effects after in utero and lactational 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) exposure in three differentially TCDD-sensitive rat linesUlla Simanainen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Sci 80:101-8. 2004..Thus, the intraspecies genetic differences in C-terminal transactivation domain of AHR appear to modify the sensitivity to only certain dioxin-induced male reproductive effects...
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-induced accumulation of biliverdin and hepatic peliosis in ratsMarjo Niittynen
Department of Environmental Health, Laboratory of Toxicology, National Public Health Institute, Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Sci 71:112-23. 2003....
Parameter and model uncertainty in a life-table model for fine particles (PM2.5): a statistical modeling studyMarko Tainio
Centre of Excellence for Environmental Health Risk Analysis, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health 6:24. 2007..We studied the effects of various uncertain input variables by building a life-table model for fine particles...
Effect of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on heme oxygenase-1, biliverdin IXalpha reductase and delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase 1 in rats with wild-type or variant AH receptorMarjo Niittynen
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Box 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicology 250:132-42. 2008..Other factors such as the late repression of BVRA found here and possibly oxidative stress may be important contributors to biliverdin accumulation in these rats...
Characterization of model error in a simulation of fine particulate matter exposure distributions of the working age population in Helsinki, FinlandOtto O Hänninen
Division of Environmental Health, Finnish National Public Health Institute KTL, Centre for Environmental Health Risk Analysis, Kuopio, Finland
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 55:446-57. 2005....
Immediate and highly sensitive aversion response to a novel food item linked to AH receptor stimulationSanna Lensu
Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, P O B 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Lett 203:252-7. 2011....
Health effects caused by primary fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emitted from buses in the Helsinki metropolitan area, FinlandMarko Tainio
Centre of Excellence for Environmental Health Risk Analysis, National Public Health Institute, Finland
Risk Anal 25:151-60. 2005..The dose-response relationship and the emission factors were identified as the main sources of uncertainty in the model...
Characterization of the 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-provoked strong and rapid aversion to unfamiliar foodstuffs in ratsSanna Lensu
Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, P O B 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicology 283:140-50. 2011..The molecular mechanisms of this tantalizing behavioural alteration remain to be determined...
Effects of epidermal growth factor receptor deficiency and 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin on fetal development in miceHanna M Miettinen
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, P O Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Lett 150:285-91. 2004..In conclusion, EGFR signaling is not required for TCDD-induced cleft palate or hydronephrosis but TCDD appears to counteract the effect of EGFR deficiency on eye opening...
Openness in participation, assessment, and policy making upon issues of environment and environmental health: a review of literature and recent project resultsMikko V Pohjola
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health 10:58. 2011....
Is the fear of dioxin cancer more harmful than dioxin?Jouko Tuomisto
Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, P O Box 95, FI 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Lett 210:338-44. 2012..This could pose indirect nutritional risks, in fact being more harmful than even the worst case predictions of the putative cancer risks attributable to dioxins...
Structure-activity relationships and dose responses of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins for short-term effects in 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-resistant and -sensitive rat strainsUlla Simanainen
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 181:38-47. 2002..Type I effects are similar in both strains, and type II effects show decreased efficacy of toxic response in relation with the altered H/W-type AHR...
Human dietary intake of organochlorines from Baltic herring: implications of individual fish variability and fisheries managementMikko Kiljunen
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Ambio 36:257-64. 2007..Increased fishing would only slightly decrease organochlorine concentrations of herring in the Finnish fish market...
A probabilistic characterization of the relationship between fine particulate matter and mortality: elicitation of European expertsRoger M Cooke
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 41:6598-605. 2007..By providing quantitative estimates of the uncertainty in current estimates of PM2.5 mortality risks, the study facilitates structured analysis of the value of further research on PM2.5 and its impacts...
Comparative risk analysis of dioxins in fish and fine particles from heavy-duty vehiclesOlli Leino
National Public Health Institute of Finland
Risk Anal 28:127-40. 2008..In addition, the benefits of fish consumption due to omega-3 exposure were notably higher than the potential dioxin cancer risk. Both regulations were instigated as ways of promoting public health...
Response of the incisor tooth to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in a dioxin-resistant and a dioxin-sensitive rat strainAnu Kiukkonen
Department of Pedodontics and Orthodontics, Institute of Dentistry, Mannerheimintie 172, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Toxicol Sci 69:482-9. 2002..Similar responses in both strains implied that the impaired formation of the incisor tooth, at least of its mesenchymal elements, is not associated with the differential resistance of H/W and L-E rats to TCDD acute lethality...
Altered retinoid metabolism in female Long-Evans and Han/Wistar rats following long-term 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-treatmentNick Fletcher
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Toxicol Sci 86:264-72. 2005..Furthermore, 9-cis-4-oxo-13,14-dihydro-RA was identified as a novel and sensitive indicator of TCDD exposure, in a resistant and sensitive rat strain, thereby extending the database of low-dose TCDD effects...
Risk-benefit analysis of eating farmed salmonJouni T Tuomisto
Science 305:476-7; author reply 476-7. 2004
Closing the gap between science and policy on air pollution and healthLeendert van Bree
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency MNP, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Toxicol Environ Health A 70:377-81. 2007....
Assessing environmental health risks or net health benefits?Jouni T Tuomisto
Scand J Public Health 33:162-3. 2005
