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Perfluoroalkyl substance pollutants activate the innate immune system through the AIM2 inflammasome
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25 May 2021 | Nat Commun
The AIM2 receptor in mice was found to reduce PFOS-induced inflammation, as well as tissue damage in the lungs, livers, and kidneys.
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Exposure to novel and legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and associations with type 2 diabetes: A case-control study in East China
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25 May 2021 | Environ Int
PFAS was found to be a potential factor in the development of type 2 diabetes.
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Risk Assessment of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) using Dynamic Age Dependent Physiologically based Pharmacokinetic Model (PBPK) across human lifetime
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25 May 2021 | Environ Res
A model was developed to quantify the risk of PFOS throughout the human lifetime, particularly in susceptible age groups.
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Perfluoroalkyl substances and immune cell counts in adults from the Mid-Ohio Valley (USA)
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25 May 2021 | Environ Int
PFHxS exposure was found to initiate an immune response in the human body.
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Impact of the increasing concentrations of selected perfluoroalkyl acids on the observed concentrations of red blood cell folate among US adults aged ≥20 years
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25 May 2021 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
The degree to which PFAS concentrations in red blood cells changed varied by age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
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Source allocation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with supervised machine learning: Classification performance and the role of feature selection in an expanded dataset
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24 May 2021 | Chemosphere
Supervised machine learning based on composition can identify patterns that can be used to distinguish PFAS sources.
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FluoroMatch 2.0-making automated and comprehensive non-targeted PFAS annotation a reality
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24 May 2021 | Anal Bioanal Chem
Using the newly developed FluoroMatch Flow 2 software, 1,000 individual PFAS were found in firefighting foam, including previously undescribed compounds.
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Biomarkers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Sub-Arctic and Arctic communities in Canada
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19 May 2021 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
Male participants had higher concentrations of PFAS compared to female participants, and PFAS concentrations tended to increase with age.
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Method Development and Validation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Foods from FDA's Total Diet Study Program
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19 May 2021 | J Agric Food Chem
A PFAS detection method was validated for use in a wide variety of foods and found positive detects of PFOS in meat samples.
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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and body size and composition trajectories in midlife women: the study of women's health across the nation 1999-2018
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19 May 2021 | Int J Obes (Lond)
Certain PFAS were positively associated with greater body size and body fat and may be an underappreciated contributing factor to obesity risk.
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Environmental Source Tracking of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances within a Forensic Context: Current and Future Techniques
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18 May 2021 | Environ Sci Technol .
In this perspective, we identify the current tools available and principal developments necessary to enable greater confidence in environmental source tracking to identify and apportion PFAS sources.
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Maternal exposure of mice to sodium p-perfluorous nonenoxybenzene sulfonate causes endocrine disruption in both dams and offspring
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18 May 2021 | Endocr J
Exposure to PFAS was associated with endocrine disruption in mothers and their offspring.
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Simultaneous analysis of neutral and ionizable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in air
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18 May 2021 | Chemosphere
A novel method was developed to determine the fate of PFAS in air.
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Environmental exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances in early pregnancy, maternal glucose homeostasis and the risk of gestational diabetes: A prospective cohort study
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18 May 2021 | Environ Int
Environmental exposure to PFAS may affect glucose homeostasis in pregnancy and increase the risk of diabetes symptoms, especially in average-weight women.
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Distribution, behaviour, bioavailability and remediation of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in solid biowastes and biowaste-treated soil
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18 May 2021 | Environ Int
In this review, the distribution, bioavailability, and remediation of PFAS in soil receiving solid biowastes, which include biosolids, composts, and manure, are presented.