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  Research : CHAMACOS - Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers And Children Of Salinas
 
 Collaborators 

    Brenda Eskenazi, PhD (UC Berkeley)
    Asa Bradman, PhD (UC Berkeley)
    Ira Tager, MD, PhD (UC Berkeley)
    Michael Lipsett, MD (OEHHA)
    Janet Macher, PhD (CA DHS)
    Laura Fenster, PhD (CA DHS)
    John Casida, PhD
    Kim Harley, PhD


 Holland Group 

    Subha Venkat, PhD
    Karen Huen, PhD Student
    Nishat Shaikh, MS Student
    Aurelia Cheng
    Seung Pak
    Paul Yousefi
    An Nguyen
    Pin Xiang
   
    
About CHAMACOS

CHAMACOS (the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas) is a community-university partnership investigating the environment and children’s health in the Salinas Valley, Monterey County, California. Current studies focus on pesticide and allergen exposures to pregnant women and children.




Lab Core              Mechanism
 Field Office Laboratory Staff 
    Jonathan Chevrier
    Norma
    Jose



 Publications

Eskenazi B, Rosas L, et al (2008). "Pesticide Toxicity and the Developing Brain." Nordic Pharmacological Society 102: 228-236.

P.Duramad, K.Harley, M.Lipsett, A.Bradman, B.Eskenazi, N.Holland, I.Tager Early environmental exposures and intracellular Th1/Th2 cytokine profiles in 24-month old children living in an agricultural area, Environmental Health Perspectives, v.14, 12:1916-1922, 2006.

Eskenazi B, Gladstone EA, Berkowitz GS, Drew CH, Faustman EM, Holland NT, et al. 2005. Methodologic and logistic issues in conducting longitudinal birth cohort studies: lessons learned from the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. Environ Health Perspect 113(10):1419-1429.

Young JG, Eskenazi B, Gladstone EA, Bradman A, Pedersen L, Johnson C, et al. 2005. Association between in utero organophosphate pesticide exposure and abnormal reflexes in neonates. Neurotoxicology 26(2):199-209.

Eskenazi B, Harley K, Bradman A, Weltzien E, Jewell NP, Barr DB, Furlong CE, Holland NT. "Association of in utero organophosphate pesticide exposure and fetal growth and length of gestation in an agricultural population", Environmental Health Perspectives. 12:1-9, 2004.

P. Duramad, A. Hubbard, C. McMahon, N. Holland, “Flow cytometric detection of intracellular Th1/Th2 cytokines using whole blood: Biomarker validation for use in epidemiological studies”, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 13(9): 1452-8, 2004.

Eskenazi B, Bradman A, Gladstone EA, Jaramillo S, Birch K, Holland NT, "CHAMACOS, A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study: Lessons from the Fields", J.of Children's Health, 1, 3-27, 2003.

For additional papers, please look at PON1 Project