The long term goals of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the
Urban Environment are to examine how exposures to environmental
pollutants and allergens may relate to airway inflammation and
respira...
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The central goal of the Center is to investigate environmental
risk factors contributing to the incidence and severity of
childhood autism.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by de...
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n 2000, the US EPA granted authority to establish up to five
Estuarine Indicator Research Programs. These Programs were designed
to identify, evaluate, recommend and potentially develop a suite of...
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Leukemia,
or cancer of the white blood cells, is the most common type of
childhood cancer. Scientists at this center are examining how early
exposure to toxic chemicals might contribute to leukemi...
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The need for human, organotypic culture models coupled with the
requirements of contemporary toxin screening (i.e. reproducibility,
high throughput, transferability of data, clear mechanisms of
ac...
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The
conditions a person experiences in the womb can have lifelong
health effects; for example, being exposed to certain chemicals
(e.g., endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals) in the womb can
l...
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The FRIENDS Children's Environmental Health Center at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was established in 2001
to investigate the interactive effects of PCBs and methyl mercury
(MeHg)...
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