Center for Environmental Health Sciences, College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
Inhal Toxicol. 2010 Feb;22(2):91-3. doi: 10.3109/08958370903008847.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the University of Montana's Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) co-hosted a conference entitled "International Biomass Smoke and Health Effects" in Missoula, MT, on August 21 and 22, 2007. The goal of this conference was to bring together experts from diverse fields to review the state of the science in several key areas involving biomass smoke research, as well as identify future research directions. Researchers, physicians, and representatives from regulatory agencies from around the country and world met for a cross-disciplinary exploration of many issues related to biomass smoke research. Major topics of discussion included risk assessment, biomarkers of exposure, toxicology and animal study design, health outcomes measures/study design, and communications gaps. In addition to multiple presentations, breakout sessions were focused on identifying future research directions. In this issue of Inhalation Toxicology, we present the findings from each of these breakout sessions in an effort to summarize what is known in these key areas, and to identify those emerging issues in the field of biomass smoke research.
美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）和蒙大拿大学环境健康科学中心（CEHS）于 2007 年 8 月 21 日和 22 日在蒙大拿州米苏拉共同主办了一场题为“国际生物质烟雾与健康影响”的会议。本次会议的目标是召集来自不同领域的专家，审查涉及生物质烟雾研究的几个关键领域的科学现状，并确定未来的研究方向。来自全国各地和世界各地的研究人员、医生和监管机构的代表齐聚一堂，对与生物质烟雾研究相关的许多问题进行跨学科探讨。讨论的主要议题包括风险评估、暴露生物标志物、毒理学和动物研究设计、健康结果衡量/研究设计以及沟通差距。除了多次演讲外，还分组讨论了确定未来研究方向的问题。在本期《吸入毒理学》中，我们介绍了每个分组讨论的结果，努力总结这些关键领域的已知情况，并确定生物质烟雾研究领域的新问题。
