Relevant Previous Publications

These publications are related to PROTECT research and written by PROTECT researchers but were published before PROTECT funding began.

2009

Meeker JD, Sathyanarayana S, Swan SH. Phthalates and other additives in plastics: human exposure and associated health outcomes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci; 364, 2097-2113; doi: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0268.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0268

Meeker JD, Hu H, Cantonwine DE, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Calafat AM, Ettinger AS, HernandezAvila M, Loch-Caruso R, Téllez-Rojo MM. Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to preterm  birth in Mexico City. Environ Health Perspect, 2009;117(10):1587-92. PMID: 20019910, PMCID2790514.

2008

Meeker JD, Calafat AM, Hauser R. Urinary metabolites of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate are associated with decreased steroid hormone levels in adult men. J Androl; DOI:10.2164/jandrol.108.006403.

http://dx.doi.org/10.2164/jandrol.108.006403

Tsuneta, T., Hanna-Attisha, M., Grindatti, C., Quensen, J.F. III, Boyd, S.A. and Caruso, R. Loch.  Stimulatory effects of a microbially dechlorinated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mixture on rat uterine contraction. Environ. Res. 107(2):185-93, 2008.  [PMID: 18359014]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=18359014

Mahalingaiah S, Meeker JD, Pearson KR, Calafat AM, Ye X, Petrozza J, Hauser R. Temporal variability and predictors of urinary bisphenol A concentrations in men and women. Environ Health Perspect, 2008; 116(2):173-8. [PMID 18288314]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=18288314

Qualters, D.M., T.C. Sheahan, E.J. Mason, D.S. Navick and M. Dixon (2008). “Improving Learning in First-Year Engineering Courses through Interdisciplinary Collaborative Assessment,” Journal of Engineering Education, 97(1):37-45.

http://www.jee.org/2008/january/6.pdf

Wang, Y., Cui, G., Zhao, M., Yang, J., Wang, C. Giese, R. W., Peng, S. (2008) Bioassay-directed purification of an acidic phospholipase A2 from Agkistrodon halys pallas venom, Toxicon 51, 1131-1139.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TCS-4RM1KPN-1&_user=2403224&_coverDate=06/01/2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1747455942&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000057194&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2403224&md5=ed825237f3bba8b571ca520c4e4552f1&searchtype=a

Kaeli D. and Leeser M., “General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, October 2008.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WKJ-4TFW5MX-2&_user=2403224&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2008&_alid=1705244995&_rdoc=3&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_cdi=6908&_sort=r&_st=13&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=67&_acct=C000057194&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2403224&md5=ac5e327e69898e1df9d471ebd90441d1&searchtype=a

2007

Li, C.-S. and Loch-Caruso, R.  Sodium arsenite inhibits migration of extravillous trophoblast cells in vitro. Reprod. Toxicol. 24(3): 296-302, 2007. [PMID: 17646079]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=17646079

Shao, G., Kautz, R., Peng, S., Cui, G., Giese, R. W. (2007) Calibration by NMR for quantitative analysis: p-Toluenesulfonic acid as a reference substance, J. Chromatogr. A, 1138, 305-308.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17095000

Yong. L. C., Schulte, P. A., Kao, C-K., Giese, R. W., Boeniger, M. F., Strauss, G. H.S., Petersen, M. R., Wiencke, J. K. (2007) DNA Adducts in Granulocytes of Hospital Workers Exposed to Ethylene Oxide, Am. J. Ind. Med., 50, 293-302.09.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17354254

Gao, H., Wu, B., Giese, R. Zhu, A. (2007) Xom interacts with and stimulates transcriptional activity of LEF1/TCFs: implications for ventral cell fate determination during vertebrate embryogenesis, Cell Res. 17, 345-356.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17404593

Wu X, Alshawabkeh, A. N., Gent, D., Larson, S. and Davis, J. (2007) “Rates of Lactate Transformation and Transport in Soil under DC fields,” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133(12), pp. 1587-1596

http://ascelibrary.org/gto/resource/1/jggefk/v133/i12/p1587_s1

Sarahney, H. and Alshawabkeh, A. N. (2007) “Effect of Current Density on Electrolytic Transformation of Benzene for Groundwater Remediation,” Journal of Hazardous Materials, 143(3), pp. 649-654

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TGF-4MTK97P-3&_user=2403224&_coverDate=05%2F17%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1747147409&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000057194&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2403224&md5=c83acded083853326dc0e3230a4c0a1c&searchtype=a

Azmandian F., Kaeli D., Dy J., Hutchinson E., Ancukiewicz M., Niemierko A. and Jiang A., “Towards the Development of an Error Checker for Radiotherapy Treatment Plans: A Preliminary Study,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 52/2007, pp. 6711-6524.

http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/52/21/012/pdf/pmb7_21_012.pdf

DeGroot, D.J., M.L. Landon and T.C. Sheahan (2007). “Non-destructive Sample Quality Assessment using Shear Wave Velocity,” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133(4):37-45.

http://ascelibrary.org/gto/resource/1/jggefk/v133/i4/p424_s1

Meeker JD, Missmer SA, Cramer DW, Hauser R. Maternal exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and pregnancy outcome among couples undergoing assisted reproduction. Hum Reprod, 2007; 22(2):337-45. [PMID 17053002]

http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2/337.short

Hauser R, Meeker JD, Singh NP, et al. DNA damage in human sperm is related to urinary levels of phthalate monoester and oxidative metabolites. Hum Reprod, 2007; 22(3):688-95. [PMID 17090632]

http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/688.abstract

Meeker JD, Barr D, Serdar B, Rappaport S, Hauser R.  Utility of urinary 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol levels to assess environmental carbaryl and naphthalene exposure in an epidemiology study. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol, 2007; 17(4):314-20. [PMID 16721410]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16721410

Meeker JD, Calafat AM, Hauser R. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate metabolites may alter thyroid hormone levels in men. Environ Health Perspect, 2007; 115(7):1029-34. [PMID 17637918]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17637918

Meeker JD, Missmer SA, Vitonis AF, Cramer DW, Hauser R. Risk of spontaneous abortion in women with childhood exposure to parental cigarette smoke. Am J Epidemiol, 2007; 166(5):571-5. [PMID 17566062]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17566062

Asadi G., Sridharan V., Tahoori M., Kaeli D. and Granlund K., “Soft Error Susceptibility Analysis of SRAM-Based FPGAs in High-Performance Information Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS), 54(6), Dec. 2007, pp. 2714-2726.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4395391&tag=1#

2006

Shimelis, O., Giese, R. W. (2006) Nuclease P1 digestion/high-performance liquid chromatography, a practical method for DNA quantitation, J. Chromatogr. A., 1117, 132-136.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TG8-4JRVB84-C&_user=2403224&_coverDate=06%2F09%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1747198924&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000057194&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2403224&md5=a7c5f8357f21cebc3e66ebdb6ba6a245&searchtype=a

Murugaiah, V., Naim, A., Peng, S., Cui, G., Giese, R. W. (2006) 4-(4′-Methyltetrafluorophenyl)-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzyl bromide: A new electrophoric derivatizing reagent, J. Chromatogr. A, 1134, 338-340.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2062568/

Fayyazi M., Kaeli D. and Meleis W., “An Adjustable Linear Time Parallel Algorithm for Maximum Weight Bipartite Matching,” Information Processing Letters, 97(5), 2006, pp. 186-190.

http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/nucar/publications/IPL06.pdf

Petit S., Sahquillo J. and Kaeli D. “Addressing a Workload Characterization Study to the Design of Consistency  Protocols,” Journal of Supercomputing, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/nucar/publications/JSC.pdf

Brant, K, Guan, W, Tithof, T and Caruso, R Loch.  Gestation age-related increase in 50 kDa rat uterine calcium-independent phospholipase A2 expression influences uterine sensitivity to polychlorinated biphenyl stimulation.  Biol. Reprod. 74: 874-880, 2006.  [PMID: 16436530]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16436530

Chung, D. and Caruso, R. Loch.  2,2¢-Dichlorobiphenyl-induced inhibition of myometrial gap junction communication is independent of oxidative stress .  Toxicol. Sci. 93: 172-179, 2006.  [PMID: 16751230]

Brant, K and Caruso, R Loch.  PCB 50 stimulates release of arachidonic acid and prostaglandins from late gestation rat amnion fibroblast cells. Reprod. Toxicol. 22(4): 591-8, 2006. [PMID: 16713698]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16713698

Hauser R, Meeker JD, Duty S, Silva M, Calafat A. Altered semen quality in relation to urinary concentrations of phthalate monoester and oxidative metabolites.  Epidemiology, 2006; 17(6):682-91.

[PMID 17003688]

http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/2006/11000/Altered_Semen_Quality_in_Relation_to_Urinary.14.aspx

2005

Alshawabkeh, A. N. and Sarahney, H. (2005) “Effect of Current Density on Enhanced Transformation of Naphthalene,” Environmental Science & Technology, No. 39, 5837 – 5843.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16124323

Alshawabkeh, A. N., Bricka, M. and Gent, D. (2005) “Pilot-Scale Electrochemical Cleanup of Lead Contaminated Soils” ASCE, J. of Geotechnical and Geoenv. Eng., Vol. 103, No. 3, pp. 283 – 291.

http://ascelibrary.org/gto/resource/1/jggefk/v131/i3/p283_s1

Floyd RL, O’Connor MJ, Sokol RJ, Bertrand J, Cordero JF.  Recognition and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome.  Obstet Gynecol. 2005;106:1059-64.

http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2005/11000/Recognition_and_Prevention_of_Fetal_Alcohol.25.aspx

Kao, C-Y., Giese, R.W.  (2005) Measurement of N7-(2′-Hydroxyethyl)guanine in Human DNA by Gas Chromatography Electron Capture Mass Spectrometry, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 18, 70-75.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15651851

Pashkova, A., Chen, H., Rejtar, T., Zang, X., Giese, R. Andreev, V., Moskovets, E. and Karger, B.L. (2005) Coumarin Tags for Improved Analysis of Peptides by MALDI-TOF MS and MS/MS.  II. Alexa Fluor 350 Tag for Increased Peptide and Protein Identification by LC-MALDI-TOF/TOF MS”, Anal. Chem., 77(7), 2085-2096.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15283601

Boyle CA, Cordero JF. Birth defects and disabilities: a public health issue for the 21st century. Am J Public Health. 2005;95:1884-6. Epub 2005 Sep 29.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449452/

Alshawabkeh, A.N., N. Rahbar and T.C. Sheahan (2005). “A Model for Contaminant Mass Flux in Capped Sediment under Consolidation,” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 78(3):147-165.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16005541

Wu H., Sharp G., Salzberg B., Kaeli D., Shirato H. and Jian S., “Model-based Probabilistic Prediction of Tumor Respiratory Motion,” Proceeding of 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 2005.

http://online.medphys.org/resource/1/mphya6/v32/i6/p1894_s1?isAuthorized=no

Chung, D and Caruso, R Loch.  2,2¢-Dichlorobiphenyl decreases amplitude and synchronization of uterine contractions through MAPK1-mediated phosphorylation of GJA1 (connexin43) and inhibition of myometrial gap junctions.  Biol. Reprod. 73: 974-982, 2005.  [PMID: 16000550]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16000550

Brant, K and Caruso, R Loch.  Late gestation rat myometrial cells express multiple isoforms of phospholipase A2 that mediate PCB 50-induced release of arachidonic acid with coincident prostaglandin production.  Toxicol. Sci. 88: 222-230, 2005.  [PMID: 16120751]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16120751

before 2005

Cordero JF.  Registries of birth defects and genetic diseases. Pediatr Clin North Am. 1992;39(1):65-77.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1736257

Ramos-Arroyo MA, Rodriguez-Pinilla E, Cordero JF. Maternal diabetes: the risk for specific birth defects. Eur J Epidemiol 1992;8:503-8.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1705326g78g31w7/

Cordero JF.  The epidemiology of disasters and adverse reproductive outcomes: lessons learned. Environ Health Perspect 1993 Jul;101 Suppl 2:131-6.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1519923/

Shields KE, Galil K, Seward J, Sharrar RG, Cordero JF, Slater E.  Varicella vaccine exposure during pregnancy: data from the first 5 years of the pregnancy registry.  Obstet Gynecol 2001;98:14-19.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11430950

Freire WB, Howson CP, Cordero JF. Recommended levels of folic acid and vitamin B12 fortification: a PAHO/MOD/CDC technical consultation.  Nutr Rev. 2004;62:S1-2.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2004.tb00063.x/abstract

Padilla, I. Y., T.-C. J. Yeh, and M. H. Conklin, The Effect of Water Content on Solute Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media, Water Resour. Res., 35 (11). 3305-3314, 1999.

http://europa.agu.org/?view=article&uri=/journals/wr/1999WR900171.xml&t=, The Effect of Water Content on Solute Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media

Alshawabkeh, A. N., T.C. Sheahan, and X. Wu (2004). “Coupling of Electrochemical and Mechanical Processes in Soils under DC Fields,” Journal of Mechanics of Materials, 36: 453-465.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TX6-49JPRYG-2&_user=2403224&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1747308579&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000057194&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2403224&md5=0e43e7a0247bc0cbaa1962d04f0525ca&searchtype=a

Hauser R, Meeker JD, Park S, Calafat A. Temporal variability of urinary phthalate metabolite levels in men of reproductive age.  Environ Health Perspect, 2004; 112(17):1734-40. [PMID 15579421]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253667/

Meeker JD, Ryan L, Barr D, Bennett D, Herrick R, Hauser R.  The relationship of urinary metabolites of carbaryl/naphthalene and chlorpyrifos with human semen quality.  Environ Health Perspect, 2004; 112(17):1665-70. [PMID 15579410]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253656/

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