CORE--FIELD STUDIES

描述(由申请人提供)：此核心提供以下链接 农业工人与农业环境和板凳科学家 位于这所大学。实地研究核心支持服务和 与农业流行病学调查、实地调查相关的咨询 暴露评估和生物统计。核心人员研究人 从事农业工作或有农业风险敞口的人口 健康不良影响的流行病学调查。人体组织和 在流行病学调查中收集体液，从中接触到 并测量了农用化学品的毒理效应。此外，样品 的农业粉尘和其他毒素被收集在田间进行分析 由研究核心的调查人员。 最初的流行病学/生物统计学核心被拆分为流行病学 研究核心和实地研究设施核心。赛场的目标 研究的核心是识别和发展接触农用化学品的人群 调查职业及/或职业对健康造成的不良影响 暴露在环境中。第二个目标是收集生物标本。 从这些对象和环境样本中提取，以供其他中心分析 调查人员协助确定毒性机制， 暴露，或有害的健康影响。第三个目标是将 农民和农场工人对职业和环境的暴露 毒素。

Description (provided by applicant): This Core provides a link between agricultural workers and the agricultural environment and bench scientists located in the university. The Field Studies Core supports services and consulting related to agricultural epidemiologic investigations, field exposure assessments, and biostatistics. Core personnel study human populations working in agriculture or with agricultural exposures for epidemiologic investigations of adverse health effects. Human tissues and fluids are collected in epidemiologic investigations, from which the exposure and toxicological effects of agrochemicals are measured. In addition, samples of agricultural dusts and other toxins are collected in the field for analysis by investigators in the research cores. The original Epidemiology/Biostatistics Core was split into the Epidemiology Research Core and the Field Studies Facility Core. The goals of the Field Studies Core were to identify and develop populations exposed to agrochemicals for investigation of adverse health effects due to occupational and/or environmental exposures. A secondary goal was to collect biologic specimens from these subjects and environmental samples for analysis by other Center investigators to assist with the characterization of toxicity mechanism, exposure, or adverse health effects. A third goal was to characterize exposures of farmers and farm workers to occupational and environmental toxins.