Environment and health: 7. Species loss and ecosystem disruption - The implications for human health

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 66-69

  Chivian, E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CYTARABINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MORPHINE; NEOMYCIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; PACLITAXEL; QUINIDINE; QUININE; SNAKE VENOM; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG ISOLATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0035830357     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (61)

1. Biotic control over the functioning of ecosystems
2. Human domination of Earth's ecosystems
3. Health risks
4. Global environmental degradation and species loss: Implications for human health
5. Threats to biodiversity
6. The future of biodiversity
7. Pleistocene extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human impact on Australian megafauna
8. Paleontology: Debating extinction
9. Biodiversity studies; science and policy
10. The sixth extinction: How large, where, and when?
11. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
12. UV repair and resistance to solar UV-B in amphibian eggs: A link to population declines?
13. Developmental effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in wildlife and humans
14. A dim future for boreal waters and landscapes
15. Global change through invasion
16. Fishing down marine food webs
17. Extinction by numbers
18. How many species are there?
19. Antineoplastic agents
20. The origins of prescription drugs
21. Cancer drugs better than taxol?
22. Taxoids: New weapons against cancer
23. Taxol: A unique antineoplastic agent with significant activity in advanced ovarian epithelial neoplasms
24. Diversity of conus neuropeptides
25. Effects of continuous intrathecal infusion of omega-conopeptides on behavior and anti-nociception in the formalin and hot plate tests in rats
26. A selective N-type calcium channel antagonist protects against neuronal loss after global cerebral ischemia
27. Venom peptides as human pharmaceuticals
28. SNX-111: Antinociceptive agent N-type voltage-sensitive calcium channel blocker
29. The significance of emerging diseases in the tropical coral reef ecosystem
30. Grisly trade imperils world's bears
31. Plasma carnitine levels in black bears
32. Calcium and bone metabolic homeostasis in active and denning black bears
33. Black bears and polar bears - Still metabolic marvels
34. Sharks and the origins of vertebrate immunity
35. Sharks' healing powers
36. Squalamine inhibits angiogenesis and solid tumor growth in vivo and perturbs embryonic vasculature
37. Squalamine: An aminosterol antibiotic from the shark
38. Extinction on the high seas
39. Food and metabolic signalling defects in a Caenorhabditis elegans serotonin-synthesis mutant
40. Translocation of C. elegans CED-4 to nuclear membranes during programmed cell death
41. Daf-2, an insulin receptor-like gene that regulates longevity and diapause in caenorhabditis elegans
42. A cytosolic catalase is needed to extend adult lifespan in C. elegans daf-C and clk-1 mutants
43. Worm longevity gene cloned
44. Biosphere 2 and biodiversity: The lessons so far
45. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
46. The emergence of new plant diseases: The case of insect-transmitted plant viruses
47. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife: Threats to biodiversity and human health
48. Biodiversity and disease risk: The case of Lyme disease
49. Climate, ecology, and human health
50. Deforestation: Effects on vector-borne disease
51. Integrative ecology and the dynamics of species in oak forests
52. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases
53. Global climate and infectious disease: The cholera paradigm
54. A new hantavirus infection in North America
55. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: A clinical description of 17 patients with a newly recognized disease