Superfund Research Program
Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT)
Center Director: Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Grant Number: P42ES017198
Funding Period: 2010-2025
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Publications
- Cardona-Cordero NR, Velez Vega CM, Cordero JF, Rosario Z, Murphy C, Mattei H, Meeker JD, Alshawabkeh AN, Vergara C. Social determinants of contaminant exposure and pregnancy in the northern Karst of Puerto Rico. In: Karst Groundwater Contamination and Public Health. Advances in Karst Science. Springer International Publishing,
- Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Loch-Caruso R, Giese RW, Padilla IY, Vesper D, Kaeli D, Sheahan TC, Brown P, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN. Team science applied to environmental health research: karst hydrogeology and preterm birth in Puerto Rico. In: Karst Groundwater Contamination and Public Health. Advances in Karst Science. Springer International Publishing,
- Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Sheahan TC, Padilla IY, Giese RW, Silevitch M, Loch-Caruso R, Kaeli D, Alshawabkeh AN. Case study: Puerto Rico test site for exploring contamination threats. In: GeoCongress 2012: State of the Art and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.
- Torres NI, Padilla IY, Macchiavelli R. Response of groundwater levels to hydrologic events in karst aquifer system of northern Puerto Rico. In: 16th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst (First Edition). NCKRI Symposium 8, Carlsbad, NM. pp.171-180.
2024
- Cathey A, Eaton JL, Watkins DJ, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2024. Associations between urinary hydroxylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biomarker concentrations and measures of timing of delivery and infant size at birth. Environ Int 190:doi:10.1016/j.envint.2024.108848 PMID:38936064
- Guedes P, Mateus E, Alshawabkeh AN, Ribeiro A. 2024. Ultrasound-assisted electrodialytic separation of cobalt from tungsten carbide scrap powder. Sustain Chem Pharm 38:doi:10.1016/j.scp.2024.101471
- Harris SM, Su AL, Dou JF, Loch-Caruso R, Elkin ER, Jaber S, Bakulski KM. 2024. Placental cell conditioned media modifies hematopoietic stem cell transcriptome in vitro. Placenta 145:117-125. doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2023.12.016 PMID:38128222
- Hojabri S, Rajic L, Zhao Y, Alshawabkeh AN. 2024. Simulation of hexavalent chromium removal by electrocoagulation using iron anode in flow-through reactor. J Hazard Mater 476:doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135195 PMID:39018592
- Irizarry S, Cathey A, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Watkins DJ, Meeker JD. 2024. Urinary phenol and paraben concentrations in association with markers of inflammation during pregnancy in Puerto Rico. Sci Total Environ 921:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170889
- Jenkins H, Meeker JD, Zimmerman E, Cathey A, Fernandez J, Montanez G, Park S, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Watkins DJ. 2024. Gestational glyphosate exposure and early childhood neurodevelopment in a Puerto Rico birth cohort. Environ Res 246:doi:10.1016/j.envres.2024.118114
- Kim C, Cathey A, Park S, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2024. Associations of maternal blood metal concentrations with plasma eicosanoids among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. Sci Total Environ 928:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172295
- Kim J, Sarrouf S, Ehsan MF, Alshawabkeh AN, Baek K. 2024. In-situ groundwater remediation of contaminant mixture of As(III), Cr(VI), and sulfanilamide via electrochemical degradation/transformation using pyrite. J Hazard Mater 473:doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134648 PMID:38781853 PMCID:11166511
- Meeker JD, McArthur K, Adibi J, Alshawabkeh AN, Barrett ES, Brubaker S, Cordero JF, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Herbstman JB, Kahn L, Karr C, Mehta-Lee S, O'Connor TG, Sathyanarayana S, Trasande L, Kuiper J. 2024. Urinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites in relation to preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program. Environ Int 187:doi:10.1016/j.envint.2024.108678 PMID:38696977
- Park H, Harris SM, Boldenow E, Aronoff DM, Rea M, Xi C, Loch-Caruso R. 2024. The antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine inhibits cytokine and prostaglandin release in human fetal membranes stimulated ex vivo with lipoteichoic acid or live group B streptococcus. Am J Reprod Immunol 91(1):e13807. doi:10.1111/aji.13807 PMID:38282602 PMCID:10832889
2023
- Ansari MN, Sarrouf S, Ehsan MF, Manzoor S, Ashiq MN, Alshawabkeh AN. 2023. Polarity reversal for enhanced in-situ electrochemical synthesis of H2O2 over banana-peel derived biochar cathode for water remediation. Electrochim Acta 453:142351. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142351 PMID:37213869 PMCID:PMC10198125
- Campbell KA, Colacino JA, Puttabyatappa M, Dou JF, Elkin ER, Hammoud SS, Domino SE, Dolinoy DC, Goodrich JM, Loch-Caruso R, Padmanabhan V, Bakulski KM. 2023. Placental cell type deconvolution reveals that cell proportions drive preeclampsia gene expression differences. Commun Biol 6(1):264. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04623-6 PMID:36914823 PMCID:PMC1001142
- Cardona-Cordero NR, Previdi IL, Torres H, Ayala I, Boronow KE, Rivera A, Meeker JD, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Brody JG, Brown P, Velez Vega CM. 2023. Mi PROTECT: A personalized smartphone platform to report back results to participants of a maternal-child and environmental health research cohort program in Puerto Rico. PLOS Digit Health 2(1):doi:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000172 PMID:36812649 PMCID:PMC9931308
- Compton P, Dehkordi NR, Sarrouf S, Ehsan MF, Alshawabkeh AN. 2023. In-situ electrochemical synthesis of H2O2 for p-nitrophenol degradation utilizing a flow-through three-dimensional activated carbon cathode with regeneration capabilities. Electrochim Acta 441:141798. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141798 PMID:36874445 PMCID:PMC9983606
- Eick SM, Geiger SD, Alshawabkeh AN, Aung MT, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Carroll KN, Cordero JF, Goin DE, Ferguson KK, Kahn LG, Liang D, Meeker JD, Milne GL, Nguyen RH, Padula AM, Sathyanarayana S, Taibl KR, Schantz SL, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R. 2023. Urinary oxidative stress biomarkers are associated with preterm birth: an Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 228(5):576.e1-576.e22. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2022.11.1282 PMID:36400174 PMCID:PMC1014953
- Elkin ER, Campbell KA, Lapehn S, Harris SM, Padmanabhan V, Bakulski KM, Paquette AG. 2023. Placental single cell transcriptomics: Opportunities for endocrine disrupting chemical toxicology. Mol Cell Endocrinol 578:112066. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2023.112066 PMID:37690473 PMCID:PMC10591899
- Elkin ER, Su AL, Dou JF, Colacino JA, Bridges D, Padmanabhan V, Harris SM, Boldenow E, Loch-Caruso R, Bakulski KM. 2023. Sexually concordant and dimorphic transcriptional responses to maternal trichloroethylene and/or N-acetyl cysteine exposure in Wistar rat placental tissue. Toxicology 483:153371. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2022.153371 PMID:36396003 PMCID:PMC10078828
- Kim C, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2023. Adverse birth outcomes are associated with circulating matrix metalloproteinases among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. J Reprod Immunol 159:103991. doi:10.1016/j.jri.2023.103991 PMID:37454540
- Kim J, Sarrouf S, Ehsan MF, Baek K, Alshawabkeh AN. 2023. In-situ hydrogen peroxide formation and persulfate activation over banana peel-derived biochar cathode for electrochemical water treatment in a flow reactor. Chemosphere 331:138849. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138849 PMID:37146770 PMCID:PMC10291676
- Korfmacher KS, Brody JG. 2023. Moving forward with reporting back individual environmental health research results. Environ Health Perspect 131(12):125002. doi:10.1289/EHP12463 PMID:38095662 PMCID:PMC10720702
- Park H, Hogan KA, Harris SM, Chames MC, Loch-Caruso R. 2023. Group B streptococcus induces cellular senescence in human amnion epithelial cells through a partial interleukin-1-mediated mechanism. Biol Reprod doi:10.1093/biolre/ioad149 PMID:37903065
- Park S, Cathey A, Hao W, Zeng L, Pennathur S, Aung MT, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Watkins DJ, Meeker JD. 2023. Associations of phthalates, phthalate replacements, and their mixtures with eicosanoid biomarkers during pregnancy. Environ Int 178:108101. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2023.108101 PMID:37487376
- Park S, Zimmerman E, Huerta-Montanez G, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Cordero JF, Alshwabekah A, Meeker JD, Watkins DJ. 2023. Gestational exposure to phthalates and phthalate replacements in relation to neurodevelopmental delays in early childhood. Toxics 11(1):65. doi:10.3390/toxics11010065 PMID:36668792 PMCID:PMC9863718
- Previdi IL, Velez Vega CM, Vasques AC, Repollet EF, Zayas HR, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF. 2023. Lessons learned: community engagement in emergencies in Puerto Rico. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 17:e367. doi:10.1017/dmp.2022.305 PMID:36970863 PMCID:PMC10184461
- Qiu Y, Sun L, Cui J, Li Z, Zeng X, Liu Y, Alshawabkeh AN, Mao X. 2023. Revisiting the role of dissolved silicate in catalyzing the hydrogen peroxide process with iron-bearing minerals. ACS ES&T Wat doi:10.1021/acsestwater.2c00557
- Riddell JL, Downey AR, Vesper D, Padilla IY. 2023. Total organic carbon concentrations in clastic cave sediments from Butler Cave, Virginia, USA: implications for contaminant fate and transport. Environ Earth Sci 82(9):231. doi:10.1007/s12665-023-10893-4 PMID:38078192 PMCID:PMC1070582
- Riddell JL, Vesper D, McDonald L. 2023. Adherence of polystyrene microspheres on cave sediment: implications for organic contaminants and microplastics in karst systems. Environ Eng Geosci 29(3):157-168. doi:10.21663/eeg-d-22-00090 PMID:39036589 PMCID:11259235
- Su AL, Harris S, Elkin ER, Karnovsky A, Colacino JA, Loch-Caruso R. 2023. Trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-1-cysteine stimulates changes in energy metabolites and amino acids in the BeWo Human Placental Trophoblast Model during syncytialization. Chem Res Toxicol 36(6):882-899. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrestox.3c00007 PMID:37162359
- Su AL, Lash LH, Loch-Caruso R. 2023. N-Acetyl-L-cysteine and aminooxyacetic acid differentially modulate toxicity of the trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine in human placental villous trophoblast BeWo cells. Toxicology 495:153611. doi:10.1016/j.tox.2023.153611 PMID:37544576
- Su AL, Loch-Caruso R. 2023. Apoptotic responses stimulated by the trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine depend on cell differentiation state in BeWo human trophoblast cells. Toxicol Vitro doi:10.1016/j.tiv.2022.105514 PMID:36336211 PMCID:PMC9949904
- Taqieddin A, Sarrouf S, Ehsan MF, Alshawabkeh AN. 2023. New insights on designing the next-generation materials for electrochemical synthesis of reactive oxidative species towards efficient and scalable water treatment: A review and perspectives. J Environ Chem Eng 11(6):111384. doi:10.1016/j.jece.2023.111384 PMID:38186676 PMCID:PMC10769459
- Welch BM, Keil AP, Buckley JP, Engel SM, James-Todd T, Zota AR, Alshawabkeh AN, Barrett ES, Bloom MS, Bush NR, Cordero JF, Dabelea D, Eskenazi B, Lanphear BP, Padmanabhan V, Sathyanarayana S, Swan SH, Aalborg J, Baird DD, Binder AM, Bradman A, Braun JM, Calafat AM, Cantonwine DE, Christenbury KE, Factor-Litvak P, Harley K, Hauser R, Herbstman JB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Holland NT, Jukic AM, McElrath TF, Meeker JD, Messerlian C, Michels KB, Newman RB, Nguyen RH, O'Brien KM, Rauh VA, Redmon B, Rich DQ, Rosen EM, Schmidt RJ, Sparks AE, Starling AP, Wang C, Watkins DJ, Weinberg CR, Weinberger B, Wenzel AG, Wilcox A, Yolton K, Zhang Y, Ferguson KK. 2023. Racial and ethnic disparities in phthalate exposure and preterm birth: A pooled study of sixteen U.S. cohorts. Environ Health Perspect 131(12):127015. doi:10.1289/ehp12831 PMID:38117586 PMCID:10732302
- Zimmerman E, Aguiar A, Aung MT, Geiger SD, Hines M, Woodbury ML, Martens A, Huerta-Montanez G, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Schantz SL, Alshawabkeh AN. 2023. Examining the association between prenatal maternal stress and infant non-nutritive suck. Pediatric Research 93(5):1285-1293. doi:10.1038/s41390-021-01894-9 PMID:34916626 PMCID:PMC9200902
2022
- Abdulhasan M, Ruden X, Marben T, Harris S, Ruden D, Awonuga AO, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA. 2022. Using live imaging and fluorescence ubiquitinated cell cycle indicator embryonic stem cells to distinguish G1 cell cycle delays for general stressors like perfluoro-octanoic acid and hyperosmotic sorbitol or G2 cell cycle delay for mutagenic stressors like benzo(a)pyrene. Stem Cells Dev 31(11-12):296-310. doi:10.1089/scd.2021.0330 PMID:35678645 PMCID:PMC9232235
- Ashrap P, Aung MT, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Maternal urinary phthalate metabolites are associated with lipidomic signatures among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 8:doi:10.1038/s41370-022-00410-3 PMID:35075242
- Bailey RE, Loch-Caruso R. 2022. Atmosphere of wet basements as a novel route for potential residential exposure to 1,4-dioxane vapor. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 30:100406. doi:10.1016/j.coesh.2022.100406 PMID:36643950 PMCID:PMC9838188
- Carpenito T, Manjourides J. 2022. MISL: Multiple imputation by super learning. Stat Methods Med Res 12:doi:10.1177/09622802221104238 PMID:35658622
- Cathey A, Aung MT, Watkins DJ, Rosario Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Mukherjee B, Meeker JD. 2022. Mediation by hormone concentrations on the associations between repeated measures of phthalate mixture exposure and timing of delivery. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol doi:10.1038/s41370-021-00408-3 PMID:34987188
- Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Rosario Z, Velez-Vega C, Mukherjee B, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Biomarkers of exposure to phthalate mixtures and adverse birth outcomes in a Puerto Rico birth cohort. Environ Health Perspect 130(3):doi:10.1289/EHP8990 PMID:35333099 PMCID:PMC8953418
- Chen Y, He B, Liu Y, Aung MT, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Garmire LX. 2022. Maternal plasma lipids are involved in the pathogenesis of preterm birth. Gigascience 11:giac004. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac004 PMID:35166340 PMCID:PMC8847704
- Compton P, Dehkordi NR, Knapp M, Fernandez LA, Alshawabkeh AN, Larese-Casanova P. 2022. Heterogeneous fenton-like catalysis of electrogenerated H202 for dissolved RDX removal. Front Chem Eng 4:doi:10.3389/fceng.2022.864816
- Compton P, Dehkordi NR, Larese-Casanova P, Alshawabkeh AN. 2022. Activated carbon modifications for heterogeneous fenton-like catalysis. J Chem Eng Catal 1(203):
- Dehkordi NR, Knapp M, Compton P, Fernandez LA, Alshawabkeh AN, Larese-Casanova P. 2022. Degradation of dissolved RDX, NQ, and DNAN by cathodic processes in an electrochemical flow-through reactor. J Environ Chem Eng 10(3):107865. doi:10.1016/j.jece.2022.107865
- Downey AR, Riddell JL, Padilla IY, Vesper D. 2022. Storage and distribution of organic carbon in cave sediments: examples from two caves in the northern karst region of Puerto Rico. Environ Earth Sci 82(36):doi:10.1007/s12665-022-10720-2
- Eaton JL, Cathey A, Fernandez J, Watkins DJ, Silver MK, Milne GL, Velez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Meeker JD. 2022. The association between urinary glyphosate and aminomethyl phosphonic acid with biomarkers of oxidative stress among pregnant women in the PROTECT birth cohort study. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 233:7. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113300 PMID:35158254 PMCID:PMC8920761
- Eick SM, Geiger SD, Alshawabkeh AN, Aung M, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Cordero JF, Ferguson KK, Meeker JD, Milne GL, Nguyen RH, Padula AM, Sathyanarayana S, Welch BM, Schantz SL, Woodruff TJ, Morello-Frosch R. 2022. Associations between social, biologic, and behavioral factors and biomarkers of oxidative stress during pregnancy: Findings from four ECHO cohorts. Sci Total Environ 835:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155596 PMID:35490822 PMCID:PMC9177811
- Elkin ER, Higgins C, Aung MT, Bakulski KM. 2022. Metals exposures and DNA methylation: Current evidence and future directions. Curr Environ Health Rep 9(4):673-696. doi:10.1007/s40572-022-00382-4 PMID:36282474 PMCID:10082670
- Elkin ER, Su AL, Kilburn BA, Bakulski KM, Armant DR, Loch-Caruso R. 2022. Toxicity assessments of selected trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene metabolites in three in vitro human placental models. Reprod Toxicol 109:109-120. doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2022.03.003 PMID:35304307 PMCID:PMC9107309
- Harris S, Bakulski KM, Dou JF, Houskamp E, Scheeres EC, Schellenboom E, Harlow O, Loch-Caruso R, Boldenow E. 2022. The trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation transcriptomic pathways and cytokine secretion in a macrophage cell model. Toxicol Vitro 84:105429. doi:10.1016/j.tiv.2022.105429 PMID:35811015
- Harris SM, Colacino JA, Buxton MA, Croxton L, Nguyen VK, Loch-Caruso R, Bakulski KM. 2022. A data mining approach reveals chemicals detected at higher levels in non-Hispanic Black women target preterm birth genes and pathways. Reprod Sci doi:10.1007/s43032-022-00870-w PMID:35107823
- Howe CG, Nozadi S, Garcia E, O'Connor TG, Starling AP, Farzan SF, Jackson BP, Madan J, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Bastain TM, Meeker JD, Breton CV, Karagas MR. 2022. Prenatal metal(loid) mixtures and birth weight for gestational age: A pooled analysis of three cohorts participating in the ECHO program. Environ Int 161:doi:10.1016/j.envint.2022.107102 PMID:35081493 PMCID:PMC8891091
- Kim C, Ashrap P, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Maternal metals/metalloid blood levels are associated with lipidomic profiles among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. Front Public Health 9:doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.754706 PMID:35096734 PMCID:PMC8790322
- Kim C, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Maternal blood metal concentrations are associated with matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. Environ Res 209:doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.112874 PMID:35123972
- Kim C, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Maternal blood metal concentrations are associated with C-reactive protein and cell adhesion molecules among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. Environ Epidemiol 6(4):e214. doi:10.1097/EE9.0000000000000214
- Lee CW, Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez-Vega C, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2022. Associations of urinary phthalate metabolites and inflammatory biomarkers among pregnant women in Puerto Rico. Sci Total Environ 854:158773. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158773 PMID:36113809
- Li G, Wu C, Wang D, Srinivasan V, Kaeli D, Dy J, Gu AZ. 2022. Machine learning-based determination of sampling depth for complex environmental systems: Case study with single-cell raman spectroscopy data in EBPR systems. Environ Sci Technol 56(18):13473-13484. doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c08768 PMID:36048618
- Loch-Caruso R, Rayle R, Caruso VP, Bailey RE, Collins E, Knol KP. 2022. Michigan's Gelman site 1,4-dioxane groundwater contamination: still spreading decades after detection. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health 30:100405. doi:10.1016/j.coesh.2022.100405 PMID:36643949 PMCID:PMC9835328
- Mungalachetty P, Kulkarni P, Wang P, Giese RW. 2022. A high specificity aniline-based mass tag for aldehyde detection. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 36(15):e9322. doi:10.1002/rcm.9322 PMID:35506207
- Previdi IL, Welton M, Rivera JD, Watkins DJ, Diaz Z, Torres H, Galan C, Guilloty NI, Agosto LD, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Velez Vega CM. 2022. The impact of natural disasters on maternal health: Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico. Children (Basel) 9(7):940. doi:10.3390/children9070940 PMID:35883924 PMCID:PMC9315789
- Rahman SM, Lan J, Kaeli D, Dy J, Alshawabkeh AN, Gu AZ. 2022. Machine learning-based biomarkers identification from toxicogenomics - bridging to regulatory relevant phenotypic endpoints. J Hazard Mater 423:doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127141 PMID:34560480
- Rivera-Nunez Z, Ashrap P, Barrett ES, Llanos AA, Watkins DJ, Cathey A, Velez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Meeker JD. 2022. Personal care products: Demographic characteristics and maternal hormones in pregnant women from Puerto Rico. Environ Res 206:doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.112376 PMID:34798118 PMCID:PMC8810700
- Su AL, Harris SM, Elkin ER, Karnovsky A, Colacino JA, Loch-Caruso R. 2022. Trichloroethylene modifies energy metabolites in the amniotic fluid of Wistar rats. Reprod Toxicol 109:80-92. doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2022.03.004 PMID:35301063 PMCID:PMC9000924
- Welch BM, Keil AP, Buckley JP, Calafat AM, Christenbury KE, Engel SM, O'Brien KM, Rosen EM, James-Todd T, Zota AR, Ferguson KK, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Barrett ES, Bush NR, Nguyen RH, Sathyanarayana S, Swan SH, Cantonwine DE, Aalborg J, Dabelea D, Starling AP, Hauser R, Messerlian C, Zhang Y, Bradman A, Eskenazi B, Charley PH, Holland NT, Bloom MS, Newman RB, Wenzel AG, Braun JM, Lanphear BP, Yolton K, Factor-Litvak P, Herbstman JB, Rauh VA, Drobnis EZ, Sparks AE, Redmon JB, Wang C, Binder AM, Michels KB, Baird DD, Jukic AM, Weinberg CR, Wilcox AJ, Rich DQ, Weinberger B, Padmanabhan V, Watkins DJ, Hertz-Picciotto I, Schmidt RJ. 2022. Associations between prenatal urinary biomarkers of phthalate exposure and preterm birth: A pooled study at 16 US cohorts. JAMA Pediatr doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.2252 PMID:35816333 PMCID:PMC9274448
- Zamora AN, Watkins DJ, Peterson K, Tellez-Rojo M, Hu H, Meeker JD, Cantoral A, Mercado-Garcia A, Jansen EC. 2022. Prenatal maternal pesticide exposure in relation to sleep health of offspring during adolescence. Environ Res 204:doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.111977 PMID:34469742
- Zhao Y, Hojabri S, Sarrouf S, Alshawabkeh AN. 2022. Electrogeneration of H2O2 by graphite felt double coated with polytetrafluoroethylene and polydimethylsiloxane. J Environ Chem Eng 10(4):108024. doi:10.1016/j.jece.2022.108024
2021
- Ashrap P, Aker AM, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2021. Psychosocial status modifies the effect of maternal blood metal and metalloid concentrations on birth outcomes. Environ Int 149:106418. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106418 PMID:33548848 PMCID:PMC7897320
- Ashrap P, Watkins DJ, Milne GL, Ferguson KK, Loch-Caruso R, Fernandez J, Rosario Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2021. Maternal Urinary Metal and Metalloid Concentrations in Association with Oxidative Stress Biomarkers. Antioxidants (Basel) 10:114. doi:10.3390/antiox10010114 PMID:33467519
- Ashrap P, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario-Pabon Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2021. Performance of urine, blood, and integrated metal biomarkers in relation to birth outcomes in a mixture setting. Environ Res 200:111435. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.111435 PMID:34097892 PMCID:PMC8403638
- Aung MT, Ashrap P, Watkins DJ, Mukherjee B, Rosario Z, Velez Vega CM, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2021. Maternal lipidomic signatures in relation to spontaneous preterm birth and large-for-gestational age neonates. Sci Rep 11:8115. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87472-9 PMID:33854141 PMCID:PMC8046995
- Aung MT, Bakulski KM, Feinberg JI, Dou JF, Meeker JD, Mukherjee B, Loch-Caruso R, Ladd-Acosta C, Volk HE, Croen LA, Hertz-Picciotto I, Newschaffer CJ, Fallin MD. 2021. Maternal blood metal concentrations and whole blood DNA methylation during pregnancy in the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI). Epigenetics 1-16. doi:10.1080/15592294.2021.1897059 PMID:33794742
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2014
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2013
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2012
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- Ghasemizadeh R, Hellweger F, Butscher C, Padilla IY, Vesper D, Field M, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. Review: Groundwater flow and transport modeling of karst aquifers, with particular reference to the North Coast Limestone aquifer system of Puerto Rico. Hydrogeology Journal 20(8):1441-1461. doi:10.1007/s10040-012-0897-4 PMID:23645996 PMCID:PMC3640320
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- Mao X, Ciblak A, Baek K, Amiri M, Loch-Caruso R, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. Optimization of electrochemical dechlorination of trichloroethylene in reducing electrolytes. Water Res 46(6):1847–1857. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2012.01.002 PMID:22264798 PMCID:PMC3288245
- Mao X, Wang J, Ciblak A, Cox EE, Riis C, Terkelsen M, Gent DB, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. Electrokinetic-enhanced bioaugmentation for remediation of chlorinated solvents contaminated clay. J Hazard Mater 213-214:311-317. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.02.001 PMID:22365139 PMCID:PMC3310245
- Mao X, Yuan S, Fallahpour N, Ciblak A, Howard J, Padilla IY, Loch-Caruso R, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. Electrochemically induced dual reactive barriers for transformation of TCE and mixture of contaminants in groundwater. Environ Sci Technol 46(21):12003-12011. doi:10.1021/es301711a PMID:23067023 PMCID:PMC3493133
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- Meeker JD, Ferguson KK. 2012. Phthalates: Human exposure and related health effects. Chapter 13 in: Dioxins and Health Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors, 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, pp.415-444.
- Paz-Garcia JM, Baek K, Alshawabkeh I, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. A generalized model for transport of contaminants in soil by electric fields. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng 47(2):308-318. doi:10.1080/10934529.2012.640911 PMID:22242884 PMCID:PMC3267327
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- Sarahney H, Mao X, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. The role of iron anode oxidation on transformation of chromium by electrolysis. Electrochim Acta 86:96-101. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2012.07.011 PMID:23284182 PMCID:PMC3532856
- Wang P, Fisher D, Rao A, Giese RW. 2012. Nontargeted nucleotide analysis based on benzoylhistamine labeling-MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS: Discovery of putative 6-oxo-thymine in DNA. Anal Chem 84(8):3811-3819. doi:10.1021/ac300532z PMID:22409256 PMCID:PMC3341171
- Wang P, Gao J, Li G, Shimelis O, Giese RW. 2012. Nontargeted analysis of DNA adducts by mass-tag MS: Reaction of p-Benzoquinone with DNA. Chem Res Toxicol 25:2737-2743. doi:10.1021/tx300363a PMID:23113579 PMCID:PMC3527073
- Wickerham EL, Lozoff B, Shao J, Kaciroti N, Xia Y, Meeker JD. 2012. Reduced birth weight in relation to pesticide mixtures detected in cord blood of full-term infants. Environ Int 47:80-85. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2012.06.007 PMID:22796478 PMCID:PMC3410737
- Wu X, Gent DB, Davis JL, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. Lactate injection by electric currents for bioremediation of tetrachloroethylene in clay. Electrochim Acta 86:157-163. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2012.06.046 PMID:23264697 PMCID:PMC3524988
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2011
- Ferguson KK, Loch-Caruso R, Meeker JD. 2011. Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress: NHANES 1999-2006. Environ Res 111(5):718-726. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2011.02.002 PMID:21349512 PMCID:PMC3110976
- Mao X, Ciblak A, Amiri M, Alshawabkeh AN. 2011. Redox control for electrochemical dechlorination of trichloroethylene in bicarbonate aqueous media. Environ Sci Technol 45(15):6517-6523. doi:10.1021/es200943z PMID:21671641 PMCID:PMC3150566
- Meeker JD, Ferguson KK. 2011. Relationship between urinary phthalate and bisphenol A concentrations and serum thyroid measures in US adults and adolescents from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007-2008. Environ Health Perspect 119:1396-1402. doi:10.1289/ehp.1103582 PMID:21749963 PMCID:PMC3230451
- Padilla IY, Irizarry C, Steele K. 2011. Historical contamination of groundwater resources in the North Coast Karst Aquifers of Puerto Rico. Dimension 3:7-12. PMID:24772197 PMCID:PMC3999440
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2010
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- Cantonwine DE, Meeker JD, Hu H, Sanchez BN, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Mercado-Garcia A, Fortenberry GZ, Calafat AM, Tellez-Rojo MM. 2010. Bisphenol A exposure in Mexico City and risk of prematurity: A pilot nested case control study. Environ Health 9:62. doi:10.1186/1476-069x-9-62 PMID:20955576 PMCID:PMC2965706
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2009
- Meeker JD, Hu H, Cantonwine DE, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Calafat AM, Ettinger AS, Hernandez-Avila M, Loch-Caruso R, Tellez-Rojo MM. 2009. Urinary phthalate metabolites in relation to preterm birth in Mexico City. Environ Health Perspect 117(10):1587-92. PMID:20019910