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By Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium

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ISBN-13: 9780309119191

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The 1991 Persian Gulf conflict was once thought of a short and winning army operation with few accidents and deaths. plenty of returning veterans, although, quickly begun reporting illnesses that they believed to be linked to their provider within the gulf. below a Congressional mandate, the Institute of drugs (IOM) is reviewing a big selection of biologic, chemical, and actual brokers to figure out if publicity to those brokers should be answerable for the veterans' overall healthiness problems.In a 2000 file, "Gulf struggle and health and wellbeing, quantity 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, and Vaccines", the IOM concluded that there has been now not adequate proof to attract conclusions to whether long term illnesses are linked to publicity to depleted uranium, an element of a few army munitions and armor. based on veterans' ongoing issues and up to date guides within the literature, IOM up-to-date its 2000 record. during this most up-to-date document, "Gulf conflict and healthiness: up to date Literature overview of Depleted Uranium", the committee concluded that there's nonetheless no longer sufficient facts to figure out no matter if publicity to depleted uranium is linked to long term illnesses. The record used to be subsidized via the U.S. division of Veterans Affairs.

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The study was conducted to assess whether uranium added to the drinking water causes responses in the female mouse reproductive tract that might be accounted for by inherent estrogenic effects of uranium. Increased uterine weight and uterine luminal epithelial cell growth, selective reduction in ovarian primary follicles but increase in growing follicles, accelerated vaginal opening, and persistent presence of cornified vaginal cells were noted in mice that drank uranium, and these effects could be attenuated by coadministration of an antiestrogenic compound (ICI 182,780).

Military deployment human exposure assessment: Urine total and isotopic uranium sampling results. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 67(8-10):697-714. McDiarmid, M. , and K. S. Squibb. 2001. Uranium and thorium. In Patty’s toxicology. 5th ed. Edited by E. Bingham, B. Cohrssen, and C. H. Powell. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Pp. 381-421. McDiarmid, M. , S. M. Engelhardt, M. Oliver, P. Gucer, P. D. Wilson, R. Kane, A. Cernich, B. Kaup, L. Anderson, D. Hoover, L. Brown, R. Albertini, R.

Long, K. C. Meakim, D. Cruess, and A. P. Lee. 2004. Military deployment human exposure assessment: Urine total and isotopic uranium sampling results. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health A 67(8-10):697-714. McDiarmid, M. , and K. S. Squibb. 2001. Uranium and thorium. In Patty’s toxicology. 5th ed. Edited by E. Bingham, B. Cohrssen, and C. H. Powell. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Pp. 381-421. McDiarmid, M. , S. M. Engelhardt, M. Oliver, P. Gucer, P. D. Wilson, R. Kane, A. Cernich, B.

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