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> From: Sharon & Jim LeBlanc <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fw: Here's an Environmental Scientist That could use Research
Money for Parkinsons and Tellurium
> Date: Saturday, February 19, 2000 6:11 PM
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> > From: Sharon & Jim LeBlanc <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Here's an Environmental Scientist That could use Research
Money
> for Parkinsons and Tellurium
> > Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 6:41 PM
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> > > From: Slechta, Deborah <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Tellurium
> > > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:56 PM
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am responding to your e-mail regarding a potential role of
tellurium
> in
> > > Parkinson's disease. I know of no research on its potential
involvement
> > at
> > > the current time. I am not very familiar with the levels of tellurium
> in
> > the
> > > environment, and actual human exposure and whether it would be a
viable
> > > candidate from that point of view. Maybe you can tell me. One
component
> > of
> > > Parkinson's Disease is its uneven geographic distribution in the
> > environment
> > > and it would be interesting to know what the distribution of
tellurium
> in
> > > the environment is. The other factor, of course, is that Parkinson's
> > disease
> > > may predate by many years any significant use of tellurium in
> industrial
> > > processes. Again, may you can provide some information re: those
> issues.
> > >
> > > My laboratory is currently working on combined exposures to
> agrichemical
> > > pesticides (all as yet unpublished studies) which produce a pattern
of
> > > effects strikingly reminiscent of parkinson's disease making these
> appear
> > to
> > > be very possible environmental risk factors. Some of the issues I
> > mentioned
> > > above are those that we have had to deal with in these efforts. I am
> also
> > > very familiar with metals.
> > >
> > > I look forward to hearing from you.
> > >
> > > Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.
> > > Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health
> > > University of Rochester Medical School
> > > Rochester, NY  14642