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Your Environment. Your Health.

Project Publications: University of Arizona: Outreach to Mexico Core

Superfund Research Program

Outreach to Mexico Core

Project Leader: Dean E. Carter
Grant Number: P42ES004940
Funding Period: 1995 - 2005

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Publications

2004

  • Cervantes FJ, Vu-Thi-Thu L, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2004. Quinone-respiration improves dechlorination of carbon tetrachloride by anaerobic sludge. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 64(5):702-711. PMID:14762702
  • Meza MM, Kopplin MJ, Burgess JL, Gandolfi A. 2004. Arsenic drinking water exposure and urinary excretion among adults in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico. Environ Res 96(2):119-126. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2003.08.010 PMID:15325872

2003

  • Cervantes FJ, Duong-Dac T, Ivanova AE, Roest K, Akkermans AD, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2003. Selective enrichment of Geobacter sulfurreducens from anaerobic granular sludge with quinones as terminal electron acceptors. Biotechnol J 25(1):39-45. PMID:12882304
  • Cervantes FJ, Duong-Dac T, Roest K, Akkermans AD, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2003. Enrichment and immobilization of quinone-respiring bacteria in anaerobic granular sludge. Water Sci Technol 48(6):9-16. PMID:14640194
  • Razo-Flores E, Iniestra-Gonzalez M, Field JA, Olguin-Lora P, Puig-Grajales L. 2003. Biodegradation of mixtures of phenolic compounds in an upward-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. J Environ Eng (New York) 129(11):999-1006.

2002

  • Cervantes FJ, de Bok FA, Duong-Dac T, Stams AJ, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2002. Reduction of humic substances by halorespiring, sulphte-reducing and methanogenic microorganisms. Environ Microbiol 4(1):51-57. PMID:11966825
  • Cervantes FJ, Dijksma W, Duong-Dac T, Ivanova AE, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2002. Anaerobic mineralization of toluene by enriched sediments with quinones and humus as terminal electron acceptors. Appl Environ Microbiol 67(10):4471-4478. PMID:11571145

2001

  • Cervantes FJ, van der Zee FP, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2001. Enhanced decolourisation of acid orange 7 in a continuous UASB reactor with quinones as redox mediators. Water Sci Technol 67(10):123-128. PMID:11575075

2000

  • Cervantes FJ, van der Velde S, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2000. Competition between methanogenesis and quinone respiration for ecologically important substrates in anaerobic consortia. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 34(2):161-171. PMID:11102694
  • Cervantes FJ, van der Velde S, Lettinga G, Field JA. 2000. Quinones as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic microbial oxidation of phenolic compounds. Biodegradation 11(5):313-321. PMID:11487061
  • Field JA, Cervantes FJ, van der Zee FP, Lettinga G. 2000. Role of quinones in the biodegradation of priority pollutants: a review. Water Sci Technol 42(5-6):215-222.
  • Mitchell RD, Ayala-Fierro F, Carter DE. 2000. Systemic indicators of inorganic arsenic toxicity in four animal species. J Toxicol Environ Health A 59(2):119-134. doi:10.1080/009841000157014 PMID:10653439
  • Puig-Grajales L, Tan NG, van der Zee FP, Razo-Flores E, Field JA. 2000. Anaerobic biodegradability of alkylphenols and fuel oxygenates in the presence of alternative electron acceptors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 54(5):692-697. PMID:11131397
  • Rael LT, Ayala-Fierro F, Carter DE. 2000. The effects of sulfur-, thiol-, and thiol inhibitor compounds on arsine-induced toxicity in the human erythrocyte membrane. Toxicol Sci 55(2):468-477. PMID:10828280
  • Varady RG, Arnold RG, Carter DE, Guzman R, Pena C. 2000. Hazardous waste and the U.S.-Mexico border region. Toward a binational, university-based institution. Environmental Practice 2(1):38-45.

1999

  • Liverman DM, Varady RG, Chavez O, Sanchez R. 1999. Environmental issues along the United States-Mexico border: drivers of change and responses of citizens and institutions. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 24:607-643.
  • Razo-Flores E, Lettinga G, Field JA. 1999. Biotransformation and biodegradation of selected nitroaromatics under anaerobic conditions. Biotechnol Prog 15(3):358-365. PMID:10356252
  • Razo-Flores E, Smulders P, Prenafeta-Bold F, Lettinga G, Field JA. 1999. Treatment of anthranilic acid in an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed reactor at low concentrations. Water Sci Technol 40(8):187-194.

1997

  • Barber DS, Ayala-Fierro F, Casarez EA, Rael LT, Winski SL, Carter DE. 1997. Introduction to Environmental Toxicology. In: Environment and Health. UNAM, Programa Universitario de Medio Ambiente, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Carter DE, Pena C. 1997. Superfund Basic Research Program Mexico Outreach Core. Center for Toxicology Newsletter

1996

  • Carter DE, Pena C, Varady RG, Suk WA. 1996. Environmental health and hazardous waste issues related to the U.S. Mexico border. Environ Health Perspect 104(6):590-594. PMID:8793340
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