Volume 33   No. 2    May 2000    Pages 49-100
FLUORIDE QUARTERLY JOURNAL of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FLUORIDE RESEARCH
Editor:  AW Burgstahler, PhD,  Lawrence, Kansas, USA Managing Editor:  Bruce Spittle, PhD,  Dunedin, New Zealand
Associate Editors: JR Lee, M.D.,  Sebastopol, California, USA, GW Miller, PhD,  Logan, Utah, USA Prof Ming-Ho Yu,  Bellingham, Washington, USA
CONTENTS

EDITORIAL Fluoride and intelligence ... 49 ANNOUNCEMENTS Third international workshop on fluorosis and defluoridation of water   First announcement: XXIVth ISFR conference ... 53-54 RESEARCH REPORTS/REVIEW Algal and cyanobacterial responses to fluoride   Monica Bhatnagar, Ashish Bhatnagar.   Ajmer (Rajasthan), India ... 55-65 A clinical and biochemical study of chronic fluoride toxicity in children of Kheru Thanda of Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India   AR Shivashankara, YM Shivaraja Shankara,   S Hanumanth Rao, P Gopalakrishna Bhat.   Karnataka, India ... 66-73 Effect of high-fluoride water on intelligence in children   Y Lu, ZR Sun, LN Wu, X Wang, W Lu, SS Liu.   Tianjin, China ... 74-78 Reproductive toxic effects of ingestion of sodium fluoride in female rats   Ahmad S Al-Hiyasat, Ahmed M Elbetieha, Homa Darmani.   Irbid, Jordan ... 79-84 ABSTRACTS HEALTH/BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS Increased incidence of spina bifida occulta in fluorosis prone areas   Gupta SK, Gupta RC, Seth AK, Chaturvedi CS ... 85 Fluoride-induced ultrastructural changes in exocrine pancreas cells of rats: fluoride disrupts the export of zymogens from the rough endoplasmic reticulum   Matsuo S, Nakagawa H, Kiyomiya K, Kurebe ... 85-86 Fluoride in drinking water and cancer mortality in Taiwan   Yang CY, Cheng MF, Tsai SS, Hung CF ... 86 Dental caries and fluorosis prevalence study in a nonfluoridated Brazilian community: trend analysis and toothpaste association   Pereira AC, Da Cunha FL, Meneghim M de C, Werner CW ... 86-87 In vitro effects of sodium fluoride and sodium dichromate on dynamic properties of human erythrocyte membrane   Korkmaz O ... 87 Some factors associated with the caries decline among Norwegian children and adolescents: age-specific and cohort analyses   Birkeland JM, Haugejorden O, von der Fehr FR ... 88 Water treatment with silicofluorides and lead toxicity   Masters RD, Coplan MJ ... 88-89 DIETARY FLUORIDE Total fluoride intake and urinary excretion in 4-year-old Iranian children residing in low-fluoride areas   Zohouri FV, Rugg-Gunn AJ ... 89-90 Fluoride content in Khat (Cathaedulis) chewing leaves   Hattab FN, Angmar-Mansson B ... 90 Urinary fluoride excretion by children 4-6 years old in a south Texas community   Baez RJ, Baez MX, Marthaler TM ... 90-91 Weaning food and magadi associated with dental fluorosis in Northern Tanzania   Awadia AK, Bjorvatn K, Birkeland JM, Haugejorden ... 91 ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS The fluoride content of antlers as an indicator of fluoride exposure in red deer (Cervus elaphus): A historical biomonitoring study   Kierdorf U, Kierdorf H ... 92 Personal fluoride and solvent exposures, and their determinants, in semiconductor manufacturing   Woskie SR, Hammond SK, Hines CJ, Hallock MF, Kenyon E, Schenker MB ... 92-93 Structure and mineralisation density of antler and pedicle bone in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) exposed to different levels of environmental fluoride: a quantitative backscattered electron imaging study   Kierdorf U, Kierdorf H, Boyde A ... 93-94 Sulfur hexafluoride: global environmental effects and toxic byproduct formation   Dervos CT, Vassiliou P ... 94 Urinary fluoride as an exposure index in aluminum smelting   Seixas NS, Cohen M, Zevenbergen B, Cotey M, Carter S, Kaufman J ... 95 BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS Ontogeny of G-protein expression: control by beta-adrenoceptors   Zeiders JL, Seidler FJ, Slotkin TA ... 95-96 Two different mechanisms for activation of cyclic PIP synthase: by a G protein or by protein tyrosine phosphorylation   Wasner HK, Gebel M, Hucken S, Schaefer M, Kincses M ... 96-97 Predominant contribution of the G protein-mediated mechanism to NaF-induced vascular contractions in diabetic rats: association with an increased level of G(qalpha) expression   Hattori Y, Matsuda N, Sato A, Watanuki S, Tomioka H, Kawasaki H, Kanno M ... 97 Fluoride effect on the activity of enamel matrix proteinases in vitro   Gerlach RF, de Souza AP, Cury JA, Line SR ... 98 CORRECTION   Abstract in Fluoride 1999;32(4):256-257 ... 98 DISCUSSION   Letter to Editor. Fluoride and autism: is there a connection?   Rookard CJ ... 99-100

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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FLUORIDE RESEARCH Officers and Board for 2000, 33(2):49-100 President:   Professor Zygmunt Machoy, Pomeranian Medical Academy, Szczecin, Poland Vice President:   Professor Koichi Kono, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan Second Vice President:   Professor N J Chinoy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India Secretary:   Professor Emeritus Gene W Miller, Utah State University, USA Treasurer:   Dr Bruce Spittle, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Editorial Board:   Dr DJ Ballentyne, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada   Dr Miklos Bély, National Institute of Rheumatology, Budapest, Hungary   Prof AW Burgstahler, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA   Prof Shouren Cao, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China   Dr M Chikuma, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka, Japan   Prof NJ Chinoy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India   Dr Edward Czerwinski, Kraków Academy of Medicine, Kraków, Poland   Prof Mark Diesendorf, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia   Dr Richard G Foulkes, Abbotsford, BC, Canada   Prof J Franke, Heinrich Mann Hospital, Bad Liebenstein, Germany   Prof G Neil Jenkins, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK   Prof Rongdi Ji, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China   Prof K Kono, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan   Prof Jerzy Krechniak, Medical University, Gdańsk, Poland   Dr KAVR Krishnamachari, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India   Dr Lennart Krook, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA   Dr John R Lee, 9620 Bodega Hwy, Sebastopol, CA, USA   Prof C James Lovelace, Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA, USA   Dr Zygmunt Machoy, Pomeranian Medical Academy, Szczecin, Poland   Dr GW Miller, Professor Emeritus, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA   Prof F Murray, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia   Dr James C Pushnik, California State University, Chico, CA, USA   Dr BP Rajan, Madras Dental College, Madras, India   Dr Bruce Spittle, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand   Dr Jörg Spitz, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Wiesbaden, Germany   Prof Guifan Sun, China Medical University, Shenyang, China   Prof AK Susheela, Fluorosis Res & Rural Develop Foundation, New Delhi, India   Prof SPS Teotia, LLRM Medical College, Meerut, India   Prof H Tsunoda, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan   Prof Zan-Dao Wei, Guiyang Medical College, Guizhou, China   Dr Sally Wheeler, Hawkesbury Agricultural Res. Unit, Richmond, NSW, Australia   Prof Y Yoshida, Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan   Prof NBK Yoshitake, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga-Ken, Japan   Prof Ming-Ho Yu, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA