ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2017
Airborne PCBs and OH-PCBs Inside and Outside Urban and Rural U.S. Schools.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Identification of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and PCB metabolites associated with changes in the gut microbiome of female mice exposed to an environmental PCB mixture.Journal of hazardous materials · 2025Article
- Polychlorinated biphenyls induce immunometabolic switch of antiinflammatory macrophages toward an inflammatory phenotype.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
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- Inhalation of 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB52) causes changes to the gut microbiome throughout the gastrointestinal tract.Journal of hazardous materials · 2024Article
- Effects of 28-day nose-only inhalation of PCB52 (2,2',5,5'-Tetrachlorobiphenyl) on the brain transcriptome.Toxicology · 2024Article
- Metabolic activation of WHO-congeners PCB28, 52, and 101 by human CYP2A6: evidence from in vitro and in vivo experiments.Archives of toxicology · 2024Article
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- Astrocyte Mitochondria Are a Sensitive Target of PCB52 and its Human-Relevant Metabolites.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Selective dopaminergic neurotoxicity modulated by inherent cell-type specific neurobiology.Neurotoxicology · 2024Review
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Abstract
PCBs appear in school air because many school buildings were built when PCBs were still intentionally added to building materials and because PCBs are also present through inadvertent production in modern pigment. This is of concern because children are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of PCBs. Here we report indoor and outdoor air concentrations of PCBs and OH-PCBs from two rural schools and four urban schools, the latter near a PCB-contaminated waterway of Lake Michigan in the United States. Samples (n = 108) were collected as in/out pairs using polyurethane foam passive air samplers (PUF-PAS) from January 2012 to November 2015. Samples were analyzed using GC/MS-MS for all 209 PCBs and 72 OH-PCBs. Concentrations inside schools were 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than outdoors and ranged from 0.5 to 194 ng/m
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