Objectives: Adverse effects have been reported of prenatal and/or postnatal passive
exposure to smoking on children's health. Uncertainties remain about the relative …

Objectives. We studied housing characteristics, parental factors, and respiratory health
conditions in Russian children. Methods. We studied a population of 5951 children from 9 …

Background Only few studies have assessed the relative impact of prenatal and postnatal
exposure to tobacco smoke on the child's later asthma or chronic respiratory symptoms and …

Recruitment of phagocytizing cells into the lower respiratory tract plays a very important role
in the pulmonary dust clearance, depending both on the number of particles deposited …

Based on experimental and epidemiological data findings presented here, as well as on
data of other investigators, the authors conclude that a wide interindividual variability of …

We studied differences between phagocytic responses to nanoparticles (NPs) versus
microparticles in the pulmonary region by synthesizing magnetite of different sizes and …

The Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission encouraged a binational collaboration to evaluate
pediatric lead poisoning in Russia. The study evaluated children in three Russian cities …

Background: Workers employed on mining, processing and storage of monazite are at risk of
exposure to dust with expected adverse health effects. Objectives: To study the adverse …

The highly industrialized small town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma (in the Urals region of Russia)
was chosen as the site of a multimedia-multipollutant risk assessment using the US …

The Russian Federation has made an intensive effort to compile and use information on the
environment and human health. In 1996-1997, we evaluated the information that was …