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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
11864
World Ranking
4679
National Ranking
73

Best Publications

  • The 2005 World Health Organization reevaluation of human and Mammalian toxic equivalency factors for dioxins and dioxin-like compounds.

    Martin Van den Berg;Linda S. Birnbaum;Michael Denison;Mike De Vito

  • Flame retardants in placenta and breast milk and cryptorchidism in newborn boys.

    Katharina Maria Main;Hannu Kiviranta;Helena Eeva Virtanen;Erno Sundqvist

  • NON-CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS OF TCDD IN ANIMALS

    Linda S. Birnbaum;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Regulates Distinct Dioxin-Dependent and Dioxin-Independent Gene Batteries

    Nathalie Tijet;Paul C Boutros;Ivy D Moffat;Allan B Okey

  • Impact of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls on human and environmental health, with special emphasis on application of the toxic equivalency factor concept.

    Ulf G. Ahlborg;Abraham Brouwer;Marilyn A. Fingerhut;Joseph L. Jacobson

  • Point Mutation in Intron Sequence Causes Altered Carboxyl-Terminal Structure in the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor of the Most 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-Resistant Rat Strain

    Raimo Pohjanvirta;Judy M. Y. Wong;Wei Li;Patricia A. Harper

  • Carcinogenicity of the Drinking Water Mutagen 3-Chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2( 5H )-furanone in the Rat

    Hannu Komulainen;Sirkka-Liisa Vaittinen;Terttu Vartiainen;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans via mother's milk may cause developmental defects in the child's teeth

    Satu Alaluusua;Pirjo-Liisa Lukinmaa;Terttu Vartiainen;Maija Partanen

  • Drinking water mutagenicity and gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancers: an ecological study in Finland.

    M. Koivusalo;J. J. K. Jaakkola;T. Vartiainen;T. Hakulinen

  • Developing teeth as biomarker of dioxin exposure

    Satu Alaluusua;Pirjo-Liisa Lukinmaa;Jorma Torppa;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Tissue distribution, metabolism, and excretion of 14C-TCDD in a TCDD-susceptible and a TCDD-resistant rat strain.

    Raimo Pohjanvirta;Terrtu Vartiainen;Antti Uusi-Rauva;Jukka Mönkkönen

  • Developmental dental aberrations after the dioxin accident in Seveso.

    Satu Alaluusua;Pier Calderara;Pier Mario Gerthoux;Pirjo Liisa Lukinmaa

  • Comparative acute lethality of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), 1,2,3,7,8-pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and 1,2,3,4,7,8-hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in the most TCDD-susceptible and the most TCDD-resistant rat strain

    Raimo Pohjanvirta;Mikko Unkila;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Effects of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin on Bone in Two Rat Strains with Different Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Structures

    Timo Jämsä;Matti Viluksela;Jouni T. Tuomisto;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls in the general population in Finland.

    Hannu Kiviranta;Jouni T. Tuomisto;Jouko Tuomisto;Erkki Tukiainen

  • Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls in fishermen in Finland

    Hannu Kiviranta;Terttu Vartiainen;Jouko Tuomisto

  • Dioxins, the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and the central regulation of energy balance

    Jere Lindén;Sanna Lensu;Sanna Lensu;Jouko Tuomisto;Raimo Pohjanvirta

  • Physicochemical differences in the AH receptors of the most TCDD-susceptible and the most TCDD-resistant rat strains.

    Raimo Pohjanvirta;Matti Viluksela;Jouni T. Tuomisto;Mikko Unkila

  • Hepatic Ah-receptor levels and the effect of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on hepatic microsomal monooxygenase activities in a TCDD-susceptible and -resistant rat strain.

    Raimo Pohjanvirta;Risto Juvonen;Sirpa Kärenlampi;Hannu Raunio

  • Effects of in utero and lactational TCDD exposure on bone development in differentially sensitive rat lines.

    Hanna M. Miettinen;Pasi Pulkkinen;Timo Jämsä;Jaana Koistinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Terttu Vartiainen
Terttu Vartiainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Pekka T. Männistö
Pekka T. Männistö University of Helsinki
Hannu Kiviranta
Hannu Kiviranta Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Juha Pekkanen
Juha Pekkanen University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Allan B. Okey
Allan B. Okey University of Toronto
Eero Pukkala
Eero Pukkala Tampere University
Jouni J. K. Jaakkola
Jouni J. K. Jaakkola University of Oulu
Timo Hakulinen
Timo Hakulinen University of Helsinki
Helen Håkansson
Helen Håkansson Karolinska Institute
Paul C. Boutros
Paul C. Boutros University of California, Los Angeles

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