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Your Environment. Your Health.

Person Details: Peter S. Thorne

Superfund Research Program

Peter S. Thorne

University of Iowa
Department of Occupational & Environmental Health
College of Public Health
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: 319-335-4216
Email: peter-thorne@uiowa.edu

Projects

Research Briefs

Hazardous Waste Sites

East Chicago City Dump

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Energy Cooperative Incorporated

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Indiana Pallet

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Kerr-Mcgee (Reed-Keppler Park)

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Kerr-Mcgee (Residential Areas)

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Kerr-Mcgee (Sewage Treatment Plant)

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

NGPCA - LETTS - 199

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc.

  • University of Iowa: The AESOP Study: Airborne Exposures to Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants

Publications

2024

  • Bullert AJ, Li X, Gautam B, Wang H, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Wang K, Thorne PS, Lehmler H. 2024. Distribution of 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB52) metabolites in adolescent rats after acute nose-only inhalation exposure. Environ Sci Technol 58(14):6105-6116. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c09527 PMID:38547313 PMCID:11008251

2023

  • Lan T, Liu B, Bao W, Thorne PS. 2023. Identification of PCB congeners and their thresholds associated with diabetes using decision tree analysis. Sci Rep 13(1):18322. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45301-1 PMID:37884570 PMCID:PMC10603165
  • Wang H, Bullert AJ, Li X, Stevens HE, Klingelhutz AJ, Ankrum J, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Thorne PS, Lehmler H. 2023. Use of a polymeric implant system to assess the neurotoxicity of subacute exposure to 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl-4-ol, a human metabolite of PCB 52, in male adolescent rats. Toxicology 500:153677. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2023.153677 PMID:37995827 PMCID:PMC10757425

2022

  • Haque E, Jing X, Bostick BC, Thorne PS. 2022. In vitro and in silico bioaccessibility of urban dusts contaminated by multiple legacy sources of lead (Pb). J Hazard Mater 8:100178. doi:10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100178
  • Haque E, Moran ME, Wang H, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Thorne PS. 2022. Validation of blood arsenic and manganese assessment from archived clotted erythrocyte fraction in an urban cohort of mother-child dyads. Sci Total Environ 810:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152320 PMID:34915002
  • Martinez A, Hua J, Haque E, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2022. Occurrence and spatial distribution of individual polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in residential soils from East Chicago, southwest Lake Michigan. Sci Total Environ 850:157705. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157705 PMID:35931157
  • Wang H, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Lehmler H, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2022. Toxicity assessment of 91-day repeated inhalation exposure to an indoor school air mixture of PCBs. Environ Sci Technol doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c05084 PMID:34994547
  • Zhang D, Saktrakulkla P, Marek RF, Lehmler H, Wang K, Thorne PS, Hornbuckle KC, Duffel MW. 2022. PCB sulfates in serum from mothers and children in urban and rural US communities. Environ Sci Technol doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c00223 PMID:35500099 PMCID:PMC9118556

2021

  • Haque E, Moran ME, Thorne PS. 2021. Retrospective blood lead assessment from archived clotted erythrocyte fraction in a cohort of lead-exposed mother-child dyads. Sci Total Environ 754:142166. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142166 PMID:32920407 PMCID:PMC7686297
  • Haque E, Thorne PS, Nghiem AA, Yip CS, Bostick BC. 2021. Lead (Pb) concentrations and speciation in residential soils from an urban community impacted by multiple legacy sources. J Hazard Mater 416:125886. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125886 PMID:34492824 PMCID:PMC8666965
  • Haque E, Thorne PS, Nghiem AA, Yip CS, Bostick BC. 2021. Lead (Pb) concentrations and speciation in residential soils from an urban community impacted by multiple legacy sources. J Hazard Mater 416:
  • Lan T, Liu B, Bao W, Thorne PS. 2021. BMI modifies the association between dietary intake and serum levels of PCBs. Environ Int 156:106626. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106626 PMID:34034117

2020

2017

2016

2015

  • Ampleman MD, Martinez A, DeWall J, Rawn DF, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2015. Inhalation and dietary exposure to PCBs in urban and rural cohorts via congener-specific measurements. Environ Sci Technol 49(2):1156-1164. doi:10.1021/es5048039 PMID:25510359 PMCID:PMC4303332
  • Hu X, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Lehmler H, Gibson-Corley KN, Thorne PS. 2015. Toxicity evaluation of exposure to an atmospheric mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls by nose-only and whole-body inhalation regimens. Environ Sci Technol 49(19):11875-11883. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b02865 PMID:26348937 PMCID:PMC4711378
  • Jones MP, Perry SS, Thorne PS. 2015. Maximum pairwise psuedo-likelihood estimation of the covariance matrix from left-censored data. J Agric Biol Environ Stat 20(1):83-99. doi:10.1007/s13253-014-0185-y
  • Koh WX, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2015. Human serum from urban and rural adolescents and their mothers shows exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls not found in commercial mixtures. Environ Sci Technol 49(13):8105-8112. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b01854 PMID:26053216 PMCID:PMC4774248

2014

2013

2012

  • Hu X, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Lehmler H, Hu D, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2012. Subchronic inhalation exposure study of an airborne polychlorinated biphenyl mixture resembling the Chicago ambient air congener profile. Environ Sci Technol 46(17):9653-9662. doi:10.1021/es301129h PMID:22846166 PMCID:PMC3573703

2010

  • Hu X, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Lehmler H, Hu D, Kania-Korwel I, Hornbuckle KC, Thorne PS. 2010. Time course of congener uptake and elimination in rats after short-term inhalation exposure to an airborne polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mixture. Environ Sci Technol 44(17):6893-6900. doi:10.1021/es101274b PMID:20698547 PMCID:PMC3408216
  • Norstrom K, Czub G, McLachlan MS, Hu D, Thorne PS, Hornbuckle KC. 2010. External exposure and bioaccumulation of PCBs in humans living in a contaminated urban environment. Environ Int 36(8):855-861. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2009.03.005 PMID:19394084 PMCID:PMC2891214
  • Zhao H, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Hu D, Hornbuckle KC, Just CL, Robertson LW, Thorne PS, Lehmler H. 2010. Development of a synthetic PCB mixture resembling the average polychlorinated biphenyl profile in Chicago air. Environ Int 36(8):819-827. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2009.03.003 PMID:19375801 PMCID:PMC2888912

2009

  • Klosener J, Peters TM, Adamcakova-Dodd A, Teesch LM, Thorne PS, Robertson LW, Luthe G. 2009. Innovative application of fluoro tagging to trace airborne particulate and gas-phase polybrominated diphenyl ether exposures. Chem Res Toxicol 22(1):179-186. doi:10.1021/tx8003032 PMID:19111055 PMCID:PMC3120107

2007

  • Norstrom K, Czub B, McLachlan M, Thorne PS, Hornbuckle KC. 2007. Serum PCBs in five men from Chicago: consideration of current exposures. Discernment of dietary and inhalation exposure to PCBs from congener profiles in blood. Chapter 47(2)in: American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry Annual Meefing. Boston, MA. pp.433-436.
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