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Your Environment. Your Health.

Project Publications: Northeastern University: Administrative Core

Superfund Research Program

Administrative Core

Project Leader: Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Grant Number: P42ES017198
Funding Period: 2010-2025
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Publications

2024

  • 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

2023

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • Cathey A, Watkins DJ, Rosario Z, Velez Vega CM, Mukherjee B, O'Neill MS, Loch-Caruso R, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2021. Gestational hormone concentrations are associated with timing of delivery in a fetal sex-dependent manner. Front. Endocrinol 12(10):doi:10.3389/fendo.2021.742145 PMID:34603214 PMCID:PMC8479114
  • Kirwa K, Feric Z, Manjourides J, Alshawabkeh AN, Velez Vega CM, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Suh HH. 2021. Preterm birth and PM(2.5) in Puerto Rico: evidence from the PROTECT birth cohort. Environmental Health 20:69. doi:10.1186/s12940-021-00748-5 PMID:34116688 PMCID:PMC8196435
  • Morton S, Honda T, Zimmerman E, Kirwa K, Huerta-Montanez G, Martens A, Hines M, Ondras M, Eum K, Cordero JF, Alshawabkeh AN, Suh HH. 2021. Non-nutritive suck and airborne metal exposures among Puerto Rican infants. Sci Total Environ 789:148008. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148008 PMID:34082200 PMCID:PMC8295239

2020

  • Manjourides J, Zimmerman E, Watkins DJ, Carpenito T, Velez Vega CM, Huerta-Montanez G, Rosario-Pabon Z, Ayala I, Vergara C, Feric Z, Ondras M, Suh H, Gu AZ, Brown P, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Alshawabkeh AN. 2020. Cohort profile: Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico. BMJ Open 10(7):e036389. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036389 PMID:32690520 PMCID:PMC7371225

2019

  • Aker AM, Ferguson KK, Rosario Z, Mukherjee B, Alshawabkeh AN, Calafat AM, Cordero JF, Meeker JD. 2019. A repeated measures study of phenol, paraben and triclocarban urinary biomarkers and circulating maternal hormones during gestation in the Puerto Rico PROTECT cohort. Environ Health 18:28. doi:10.1186/s12940-019-0459-5 PMID:30940137 PMCID:PMC6444601
  • Eick SM, Meeker JD, Brown P, Swartzendruber A, Rios-McConnell R, Shen Y, Milne GL, Velez-Vega C, Rosario Z, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Ferguson KK. 2019. Associations between socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and urinary levels of 8-iso-prostaglandin-F-2 alpha during pregnancy in Puerto Rico. Free Radic Biol Med 143:95-100. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.07.032 PMID:31369838 PMCID:PMC6848779

2012

  • Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Sheahan TC, Padilla IY, Giese RW, Silevitch M, Loch-Caruso R, Kaeli D, Alshawabkeh AN. 2012. 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.
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