Research Topics
| Deborah A RiceSummaryAffiliation: University of Southern Maine Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Consequences of exposure from persistent organic pollutants (POPs): Session X summary and research needsDeborah A Rice
Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management, State House Station 17, Augusta, ME 04333-0017, USA
Neurotoxicology 25:521-3. 2004
The US EPA reference dose for methylmercury: sources of uncertaintyDeborah C Rice
National Center for Environmental Assessment Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA
Environ Res 95:406-13. 2004..In addition, it may be argued that derivation of a RfD for methylmercury is inappropriate, given that there does not appear to be a threshold for adverse neuropsychological effects based on available data...
Assessing the effects of environmental toxicant exposure in developmental epidemiological studies: issues for risk assessmentDeborah C Rice
Environmental Health Unit, Maine Bureau of Health, State House Station 11, Augusta, ME 04333, USA
Neurotoxicology 26:483-9. 2005..Opportunity for discussion among investigators, statisticians, and risk assessors potentially would result in human developmental toxicity studies being maximally useful for public health decisions...
Methods and rationale for derivation of a reference dose for methylmercury by the U.S. EPADeborah C Rice
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U S Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA
Risk Anal 23:107-15. 2003..Other areas that EPA identified as significant areas requiring further attention are cardiovascular consequences of methylmercury exposure and delayed neurotoxicity during aging as a result of previous developmental or adult exposure...
Maternal seafood consumption and children's developmentAlan H Stern
Lancet 370:217-8; author reply 218. 2007
Evaluation of the U.S. EPA/OSWER preliminary remediation goal for perchlorate in groundwater: focus on exposure to nursing infantsGary L Ginsberg
Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut 06134, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:361-9. 2007..This does not account for the greater exposure that is possible in nursing infants or for the relative source contribution (RSC), a factor normally used to lower the PRG due to nonwater exposures...
Prenatal methylmercury exposure affects spatial vision in adult monkeysThomas M Burbacher
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Box 357234, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 208:21-8. 2005..The results from this study demonstrate that chronic in utero MeHg exposure, at subclinical levels, is associated with permanent adverse effects on spatial vision in adult monkeys...
Effects of PCB exposure on neuropsychological function in childrenSusan L Schantz
Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61802, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:357-576. 2003..More complete information on the health effects of various congeners or congener classes would allow more informed scientific and risk assessment decisions...
Blood lead concentration and delayed puberty in girlsSherry G Selevan
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA
N Engl J Med 348:1527-36. 2003..Environmental lead exposure has been linked to alterations in growth and endocrine function. It is not known whether such exposure affects pubertal development...
Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like pathology in aged monkeys after infantile exposure to environmental metal lead (Pb): evidence for a developmental origin and environmental link for ADJinfang Wu
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA
J Neurosci 28:3-9. 2008..These data suggest that AD pathogenesis is influenced by early life exposures and argue for both an environmental trigger and a developmental origin of AD...
