Grantee Research Project Results
2000 Progress Report: Inner City Toxicants and Neurodevelopmental Impairment
EPA Grant Number: R827039Center: Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico
Center Director: Alshawabkeh, Akram
Title: Inner City Toxicants and Neurodevelopmental Impairment
Investigators: Wolff, Mary S.
Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
EPA Project Officer: Callan, Richard
Project Period: August 1, 1998 through July 31, 2003 (Extended to July 31, 2004)
Project Period Covered by this Report: August 1, 1999 through July 31, 2000
Project Amount: $3,136,392
RFA: Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Children's Health , Human Health
Objective:
Children in America’s cities are at risk of exposure to multiple known and potential developmental toxicants—pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and lead. The goal of the Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research is to identify, elucidate, and prevent developmental deficits that result from exposures to environmental toxicants in the inner city.
Progress Summary:
Children in America's cities are at risk of exposure to multiple known and potential developmental toxicants--pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and lead. The goal of the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention is to identify, elucidate and prevent developmental deficits that result from exposures to environmental toxicants in the inner city.
Project 1 is a community-based prevention program that is being undertaken in East Harlem, New York City, in partnership with Boriken Health Center. In years 1 and 2, we are enrolling 120-150 mothers. The goal is to reduce exposures to pesticides and other developmental toxicants among expectant mothers. A non-intervention comparison group will consist of expectant mothers in similar housing enrolled in Project 2. Dust pesticide levels and roach infestation levels are assessed serially in both groups. In years 3 and 4, Integrated Pest Management (IMP) will be generalized to housing and schools throughout East Harlem using community intervention strategies.
Project 2 is a prospective epidemiologic study of an ethnically diverse birth cohort of infants born at Mount Sinai including 150 volunteers from Project 1. We have enrolled 216 mothers and our first “birthday” was celebrated in May 1999. To date, blood lead has been measured. Initial neurologic assessments have been made. Other measures (PCBs, pesticides) will be made on donated blood and urine. We will assess whether in utero exposures to pesticides and other toxicants are associated with developmental delays.
Project 3 is studying polymorphisms in the enzymes that activate and detoxify organophosphates and other pesticides in the population of mothers and infants enrolled in Project 2. To date, over 300 genetic polymorphisms have been determined by PCR and 115 phenotypes assessed.
Project 4, a retrospective study of African-American men enrolled in the Collaborative Perinatal Project, will assess whether in utero exposures to PCBs are associated with disordered neuropsychological function in adolescent or adult life. Specimens have been assembled and will be analyzed shortly.
Project 5 will examine the mechanisms by which environmental toxicants affect neuroendocrine development. Experiments in neuron cells and a female rat model have been initiated in order to characterize interactions between toxicants and hypothalamic gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurosecretory neurons, key regulators of reproductive development. Early results are promising for this new model of environmental reproductive toxicants.
The Center relies upon Facilities Cores in Exposure Assessment and Biostatistics/Data Management as well as an Administration Core.
Journal Articles: 33 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Berkowitz GS, Wolff MS, Matte T, Susser E, Landrigan PJ. The rationale for a national prospective cohort study of environmental exposure and childhood development. Environmental Research 2001;85(2):59-68. |
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Berkowitz GS, Obel J, Deych E, Lapinski R, Godbold J, Liu Z, Landrigan PJ, Wolff MS. Exposure to indoor pesticides during pregnancy in a multiethnic, urban cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives 2003;111(1):79-84. |
R827039 (2002) R827039C004 (2002) R831711 (2004) R831711 (2005) R831711 (2006) R831711 (2007) R831711 (Final) R831711C001 (2006) R831711C002 (2006) R831711C003 (2006) |
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Brenner B. Implementing a community intervention program for health promotion. Social Work in Health Care 2002;35(1-2):359-379. |
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Carpenter DO, Chew FT, Damstra T, Lam LH, Landrigan PJ, Makalinao I, Peralta GL, Suk WA. Environmental threats to the health of children:the Asian perspective. Environmental Health Perspectives 2000;108(10):989-992. |
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Chen J, Germer S, Higuchi R, Berkowitz G, Godbold J, Wetmur JG. Kinetic polymerase chain reaction on pooled DNA:a high-throughput, high-efficiency alternative in genetic epidemiological studies. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2002;11(1):131-136. |
R827039 (2002) R827039C001 (2002) |
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Claudio L, Torres T, Sanjurjo E, Sherman L, Landrigan PJ. Environmental health sciences education-a tool for achieving environmental equity and protecting children. Environmental Health Perspectives 1998;106(Supplement 3):849-855. |
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Engel S, Bradman A, Wolf M, Rauh V. Prenatal Organophosphor Pesticide Exposure and Child Neurodevelopment at 24 Months:An Analysis of Four Birth Cohorts. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2016;124(6):822-830. |
R827039 (2002) R826709 (2002) R826886 (2000) R827027 (2002) R828609 (Final) R832141 (Final) |
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Erichsen HC, Engel SM, Eck PK, Welch R, Yeager M, Levine M, Siega-Riz AM, Olshan AF, Chanock SJ. Genetic variation in the sodium-dependent vitamin C transporters, SLC23A1, and SLC23A2 and risk for preterm delivery. American Journal of Epidemiology 2006;163(3):245-254. |
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Etzel TM, Engel SM, Quiros-Alcala L, Chen J, Barr DB, Wolff MS, BUckley JP. Prenatal maternal organophosphorus pesticide exposures, paraoxonase 1, and childhood adiposity in the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Study. Environmental International 2020;142. |
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Flores G, Fuentes-Afflick E, Barbot O, Carter-Pokras O, Claudio L. The health of Latino children: urgent priorities, unanswered questions, and a research agenda. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002;288(1):82-90. |
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Forman J, Moline J, Cernichiari E, Sayegh S, Torres J, Landrigan M, Hudson J, Adel H, Landrigan P. A cluster of pediatric metallic mercury cases tracked with meso-2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA). Environmental Health Perspectives 2000;108(6):575-577. |
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Gore AC. Environmental toxicant effects on neuroendocrine function. Endocrine 2001;14(2):235-246. |
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Gore AC. Organochlorine pesticides directly regulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene expression and biosynthesis in the GT1-7 hypothalamic cell line. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 2002;192(1-2):157-170. |
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Gore AC, Wu TJ, Oung T, Lee JB, Woller MJ. A novel mechanism for endocrine-disrupting effects of polychlorinated biphenyls: direct effects on gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurones. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 2002;14(10):814-823. |
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Harley KG, Engel SM, Vedar MG, Eskenazi B, Whyatt RM, Lanphear BP, Bradman A, Rauh VA, Yolton K, Hornung RW, Wetmur JG, Chen J, Holland NT, Barr DB, Perera FP, Wolff MS. Prenatal exposure to organophosphorous pesticides and fetal growth: pooled results from four longitudinal birth cohort studies. Environmental Health Perspectives 2016;124(7):1084-1092. |
R827039 (2002) R826709 (2002) R826886 (2000) R827027 (2002) R828609 (Final) R831710 (Final) R832141 (Final) R834513C001 (2015) |
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Hiatt R, Stewart S, Deardoff J, Danial E, Abiwahab E, Pinney S, Teitelbaum S, Windham G, Wolff M, Kushi L, Biro F. Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Menarche:A Prospective Study. Journal of Adolescent Health 2021;69(1):33-40. |
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Landrigan PJ, Suk WA, Amler RW. Chemical wastes, children's health, and the Superfund Basic Research Program. Environmental Health Perspectives 1999;107(6):423-427. |
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Landrigan PJ, Claudio L, Markowitz SB, Berkowitz GS, Brenner BL, Romero H, Wetmur JG, Matte TD, Gore AC, Godbold JH, Wolff MS. Pesticides and inner-city children:exposures, risks, and prevention. Environmental Health Perspectives 1999;107(Supplement 3):431-437. |
R827039 (2002) R827039C002 (2002) R827039C003 (2000) |
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Landrigan PJ. Pediatric lead poisoning: is there a threshold? (Commentary). Public Health Reports 2000;115(6):530-531. |
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Landrigan PJ. Children's environmental health. Lessons from the past and prospects for the future. Pediatric Clinics of North America 2001;48(5):1319-1330. |
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Landrigan PJ, Schechter CB, Lipton JM, Fahs MC, Schwartz J. Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilities. Environmental Health Perspectives 2002;110(7):721-728. |
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Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Mattison D, McCally M, Garg A. Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children’s health: an overview. Environmental Health Perspectives 2002;110(6):A313-A315. |
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Landrigan PJ, Garg A. Chronic effects of toxic environmental exposures on children's health. Clinical Toxicology 2002;40(4):449-459. |
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Landrigan PJ. The worldwide problem of lead in petrol. (Editorial). Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80(10):768. |
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Landrigan P. Pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs):an analysis of the evidence that they impair children’s neurobehavioral development. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 2001;73(1):11-17. |
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Petrick L, Wolff M, Barupal D, Teitelbaum S. Comparison of untargeted and targeted perfluoroalkyl acids measured in adolescent girls. Chemosphere 01;290(133303). |
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Salama J, Chakraborty TR, Ng L, Gore AC. Effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on estrogen receptor-β expression in the anteroventral periventricular nucleus. Environmental Health Perspectives 2003;111(10):1278-1282. |
R827039C002 (2002) R831711 (2005) R831711 (2006) R831711 (2007) R831711 (Final) R831711C001 (2006) R831711C002 (2006) R831711C003 (2006) |
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Savitz DA, Ananth CV, Berkowitz GS, Lapinski R. Concordance among measures of pregnancy outcome based on fetal size and duration of gestation. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000;151(6):627-633. |
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Susser EB, Brown A, Matte TD. Prenatal factors and adult mental and physical health. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 1999;44(4):326-334. |
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Susser E, Matte TD. Early antecedents of adult health. Journal of Urban Health 1998;75(2):236-241. |
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Susser E, Terry MB, Matte T. The birth cohorts grow up: new opportunities for epidemiology. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2000;14(2):98-100. |
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Weiss B, Landrigan P. The developing brain and the environment: an introduction. Environmental Health Perspectives 2000;108(Supplement 3):373-374. |
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Wolff MS, Landrigan PJ. Organochlorine chemicals and children’s health (editorial). Journal of Pediatrics 2002;140(1):10-13. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, Toxics, Susceptibility/Sensitive Population/Genetic Susceptibility, pesticides, Risk Assessments, genetic susceptability, Epidemiology, Children's Health, health risks, Human Health Risk Assessment, urban air, childhood respiratory disease, environmental hazard exposures, lead, age dependent response, neurodevelopmental toxicity, environmental risks, growth & development, human exposure, pesticide exposure, neurotoxicity, susceptibility, children, lead exposure, children's vulnerablity, environmentally caused disease, developmental neurotoxicity, environmental health, human health risk, PCBs, assessment of exposure, childhood lead exposure, airway disease, respiratory problems, developmental lead exposureRelevant Websites:
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Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R827039C001 Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem
R827039C002 Exposure to Indoor Pesticides and PCBs and their Effects on Growth and Neurodevelopment in Urban Children
R827039C003 Genetics of Chlorpyrifos Risk in Minority Populations
R827039C004 Prenatal PCB Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Adolescence and Adulthood
R827039C005 Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Environmental Toxicants: PCBs and Pesticides
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.