Environmental
Health Sciences

Selected Faculty Publications

deCastro BR; Buckley TJ; Wang L, Mihalic JN, Breysse PN, Geyh AS. The longitudinal dependence of black carbon concentration on traffic volume in an urban environment.J. Air Waste Mgmt Assoc. 58:2008. 928-939.

Kim SR; Halden RU; Buckley TJ. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Human Milk of Non-smoking U.S. Women. Environmental Science & Technology. 42:2008. 2663–2667.

Crawford JM, Kamel F, Hoppin J, Sandler D, Alavania M. Pesticide Exposure and Hearing Loss in the Agricultural Health Study, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 50, 817-826, 2008).

Renick K, Crawford JM, Wilkins JR III. Hearing Loss among Ohio Farm Youth: A Comparison to a National Sample (accepted: American Journal of Industrial Medicine).

Crawford JM, Vilvens H, Pearsol J, Gavit K. An Assessment of Training Needs in a Rural Public Health Agency: Barriers to Local Public Health Training. Public Health Reports. 123:2008. 399-404.

T.R. Meier, C.J. Maute, J.M. Cadillac, J. Lee, D.J. Righter, K.M.S. Hugunin, R.A. Deininger and R.C. Dysko, Quantification, Distribution and Possible Source of Bacterial Biofilm in Rodent Automated Watering Systems. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science 79:2:1-9, 2008

R. Webster, J. Lee and R. A. Deininger, Rapid Assessment of Microbial Hazards in Metalworking Fluids. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene 2:1-6. 2006.

Jianrong Li, Amal Rahmeh, Marco Morelli, Sean P. J. Whelan. 2008. A conserved motif in large RNA dependent RNA polymerase of non-segmented negative-sense RNA viruses essential for mRNA cap formation. Journal of Virology, January, 82 (2): 775-784.

Jianrong Li, Jennifer Wang, Sean P. J. Whelan. 2006. A unique strategy for mRNA cap methylation used by vesicular stomatitis virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA., May, 103 (22): 8493-8498.

Junan Li, Blake Warner, Bruce C. Casto, Thomas, J. Knobloch, and Christopher, M. Weghorst. Tumor suppressor p16INK4A/Cdkn2a alterations in 7, 12-dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (DMBA)-induced hamster cheek pouch tumors.Mol. Carcinogenesis. 47:2008. 733-738.

Laura A. Kresty, Susan R. Mallery, Thomas J. Knobloch, Junan Li, Mary Lloyd, Bruce C. Casto, and Christopher M. Weghorst.Frequent alterations of p16INK4a and p14ARF in oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 17:2008. 3179-3187.

Liang, S*., Spear, R.C. (2008). Model-based insights into multi-host transmission and control of schistosomiasis. PLoS Medicine, 5(1):e23

Fang, L.Q.*, de Vlas, S.J.*, Liang, S.*, Looman, C. W., Gong, P., Xu. B., Yan, L., Yang, H., Richardus. J.H., Cao, W.C. (2008) Environmental factors contributing to the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in mainland China. PLoS One, 5(3):e2268

Liang, S., Seto, E., Remais, J., Zhong, B., Yang, C., Hubbard, A., Davis, G., Gu, X., Qiu, D., Spear, R.C. (2007) Environmental effects on parasitic disease transmission exemplified by schistosomiasis in Western China. PNAS, 104 (17):7110-7115

Remais, J., Liang, S., Spear, R.C. Coupling hydrologic and infectious disease modeling to explore regional differences in schistosomiasis transmission in southwestern China. Environmental Science & Technology. 42(7):2008. 2643-2649.

Tian, L.W., Bi, Y., Ho, S.C., Liu, W.J., Liang, S., Goggins, W. B., Chan, E.Y.Y., Zhou, S., Sung, J.J.Y. One-year delayed effect of fog on malaria transmission: a time-series analysis in the rain forest areas of Mengla County, south-west China. Malaria Journal. 7(110):2008. 1-9.

Zhang, W., Wang, L., Fang, L., Ma, J., Xu, Y., Jiang, J., Wang, J., Liang, S., Yang, H., Cao W. Spatial analysis of malaria in Anhui Province, China. Malaria Journal. 7(1):2008. 206.

Zhong, B., Liang, S., Xu, F.S., Wu, Z.S., Yang, C.H., Chen, L., Zhang, Y., Meng, X., Qiu, D.C., Spear, R.C. Risk factors associated with transmission of schistosomiasis in mountainous regions and implications for control. Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine. 42(8):2008. 565-568.

Sun Q, Wang A, Jin X, Natanzon A, Duquaine D, Brook RD, Aguinaldo JGS, Fayad ZA, Fuster V, Lippmann M, Chen LC, Rajagopalan S. Long-term Air Pollution Exposure and Acceleration of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Inflammation in an Animal Model. JAMA 2005;294:3003-3011

Sun Q, Yue P, Ying Z, Cardounel AJ, Brook RD, Devlin R, Hwang JS, Zweier JL, Chen LC, Rajagopalan S. Air pollution exposure potentiates hypertension through reactive oxygen species mediated activation of Rho/ROCK. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008;28:1760-1766

Sun Q, Yue P, Deiuliis JA, Lumeng CN, Kampfrath T, Mikolaj MB, Cai Y, Ostrowski MC, Lu B, Parthasarathy S, Brook RD, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Chen LC, Rajagopalan S. Ambient Air Pollution Exaggerates Adipose Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in a Mouse Model of Diet Induced Obesity. Circulation 2009;119:538-546.

Peter Muscarella, Mark Bloomston, Alexander, R. Brewer, Anjali Mahajan, Wendy, L. Frankel, E. Christopher Ellison, William, B. Farrar, Christopher, M. Weghorst, and Junan Li.Expression of the p16INK4A/Cdkn2a gene is prevalently down-regulated in human pheochromocytoma tumor specimens. Gene Expression. 14:2008. 207-216.

Kresty LA, Mallery SR, Knobloch TJ, Li J, Lloyd M, Casto BC, Weghorst CM. Frequent Alterations of p16INK4a and p14ARF in Oral Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 17(11):2008. 3179-87.