Nevertheless, the second study monitored PM10 oxidative potential exposures directly but did not observe a meaningful association between this measure and acute changes in exhaled NO or lung function in healthy adults [ 15].
Here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), Øivind Tøien and colleagues presented the first study continuously monitoring the physiology of black bears over an entire winter in a near-natural habitat.
In the first study we monitored cheese calcium, both total and soluble during manufacture and early curing.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to monitor the CO2 and O2 concentrations in both the headspace and the culture broth of Erlenmeyer flasks capped with culture plugs during shake-flask culture.
This is the first study to monitor directly mitochondrial trafficking in vivo when mtDNA replication is genetically disrupted.
This work is the first study to monitor miRNAs and mRNAs in parallel into the recovery period.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to monitor the in vivo activation of a specific signaling pathway in the SVZ after TBI.
This is, to our knowledge, the first study to monitor free-living physical behavior the first year following a hip fracture and to evaluate effects of hospital treatment on an objectively measured outcome directly related to participants' daily life.
The first study to monitor S. aureus bioaerosols in residences shows that strains of the bacterium are common inhabitants of indoor and outdoor air [ EHP 114:1859–1864; Gandara et al.].
Additional exposure to As and other toxic elements from non-food sources has not been adequately addressed and here we present the first study to monitor As levels in baked clay (known as sikor).
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to monitor stove use on a weekly basis, measure CO exposures during pregnancy, and explore the impact of wood smoke, by trimester of exposure, on birth weight.
