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Journal Articles

Wolkoff P, Crump DR & HARRISON PTC (2016) Pollutant exposures and health symptoms in aircrew and office workers: Is there a link? Environment International, 87(2), 74-84.

HARRISON P, Holmes P, Bevan R, Kamps K, Levy L & Greim H (2015) Regulatory risk assessment approaches for synthetic mineral fibres. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 73, 425-441.

De Brouwere KD, Cornelis C, Arvantis A, Brown T, Crump D, HARRISON P, Jantunen M, Price P & Torfs R (2014) Application of the maximum cumulative ratio (MCR) as a screening tool for the evaluation of mixtures in residential indoor air. Science of the Total Environment, 479–480, 267–276.

Ziemann C, HARRISON PTC, Bellmann B, Brown RC, Zoitos BK & Class P (2014) Lack of marked cyto- and genotoxicity of cristobalite in devitrified (heated) alkaline earth silicate wools in short-term assays with cultured primary rat alveolar macrophages. Inhalation Toxicology, 26, 113-27.

Brown TP & HARRISON PTC (2014) Crystalline silica in heated man-made vitreous fibres: A review. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 68, 152-159

Brown VM, Crump DR & HARRISON PTC (2013) Assessing and controlling risks from the emission of organic chemicals from construction products into indoor environments. Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts, 15, 2164 -2177

Brown RC & HARRISON PTC (2012) Alkaline earth silicate wools – a new generation of high temperature insulation. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 64, 296-304

Bevan R, Crump D, HARRISON PTC, Tam C & Youngs L (2102) Public health impacts of exposure to carbon monoxide from gas appliances in UK homes - are we missing something? Indoor Built Environ, 21, 229-240

HARRISON P, Crump D, Kephalopoulos S, Yu C, Däumling C & Rousselle C (2011) Harmonised regulation and labelling of product emissions – a new initiative by the European Commission. Indoor Built Environ. 20, 581-583.

HARRISON PTC & Brown RC (2011) Devitrification of artificial fibres (Letter to the Editor). Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 55, 823-824

Brown T, Holmes P & HARRISON PTC (2010) The applicability of epidemiological methods to the assessment of the risks to human health of indoor air pollution: an overview. Indoor Built Environ, 19, 311–326

Thomas VG, Roberts MJ & HARRISON PTC (2009) Assessment of the environmental toxicity and carcinogenicity of tungsten-based shot. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 72, 1031–1037

HARRISON PTC (2005) Fluoride in Water: a UK Perspective. J Fluorine Chemistry, 126, 1448-1456

HARRISON PTC, Aylward C, Holmes, P & Harris RS (2005). Indoor environment research in Europe: Beware the gaps! Indoor Built Environ, 14, 341-343

Capleton AC, Stevens J & HARRISON PTC (2005) The impact of the European Environment and Health process on United Kingdom environment and health policy, plans and practice - what difference has it all made? Eur J Public Health, 15, 546-551

HARRISON P (2005) The Institute for Environment and Health: Past, Present and Future. British Toxicology Society Newsletter, 26, 40-42

Aylward C, Harris RS & HARRISON PTC (2005). Analysis of topics and trends in indoor environment research in Europe: Studies in indoor monitoring. Indoor Built Environ, 14, 197-200

HARRISON P & Holmes P (2004) Endocrine disruption in animals and humans – an ongoing concern. BTS Newsletter, 25, 26-27

HARRISON P (2004) Adverse health effects of endocrine disrupters. Tr Urol Gynaecol Sex Health,
9, 9-10

Holmes P, Rumsby P & HARRISON PTC (2004) Endocrine disrupters and menopausal health. J Brit Menopause Soc, 10, 54-59

HARRISON PTC (2002) Book review: "Indoor Environmental Quality' by Thad Godish, 2001, Boca Raton FL, USA, CRC Press. Occup Environ Med, 59, 203

HARRISON PTC (2002) Editorial: Indoor air quality guidelines. Occup Environ Med, 59, 73-74

Wargocki P, Sundell J, Bischof W, Brundrett G, Fanger PO, Gyntelberg F, Hanssen SO, HARRISON P, Pickering A, Seppänen O & Wouters P (2002) Ventilation and health in nonindustrial indoor environments. Report from a European multidisciplinary scientific consensus (EUROVEN). Indoor Air, 12, 113-128

HARRISON PTC (2001) Editorial: Endocrine disrupters and human health. Brit Med J, 323, 1317-1318

Holmes P & HARRISON PTC (2001) Environmental and dietary endocrine disrupters and women's health. J Brit Menopause Soc, 7, 53-59

Roberts RA, Crump KS, Lutz WK, Wiegard HJ, Williams GM, HARRISON PTC & Purchase IFH (2001) Scientific analysis of the proposed used of the T25 dose descriptor in chemical carcinogen regulation. Arch Toxicol, 75, 507-512

Green E, Short S, Stutt ED & HARRISON PTC (2000) Protecting environmental quality and human health: Strategies for harmonisation. Sci Total Environ, 256, 205-213

HARRISON PTC, Hoskins JA, Brown RC, Pigott GH, Hext PM & Mugglestone MA (2000) Hyperplastic and neoplastic changes in the lungs of rats treated concurrently with chrysotile asbestos and N-nitrosheptamethyleneimine. Inhal Toxicol, 12 (Suppl 3), 167-172

HARRISON PTC (2000) Letter to the editor: Europe-wide research inventory on the indoor environment. Indoor Built Environ, 9, 239

HARRISON PTC (2000) Letter to the editor: Suicides and carbon monoxide. Indoor Built Environ,
9, 238

HARRISON PTC (2000) Links between environment and health: Possible future directions. Sci Total Environ, 249, 103-105

HARRISON PTC & Holmes P (2000) Making sure we're 'Safe as houses'. Indoor Built Environ,
9, 123-126

HARRISON PTC (2000) Where can you breathe easy? Times Higher Education Supplement,
1463, 26-27

Green E, Short S, Shuker LK & HARRISON PTC (1999) Carbon monoxide exposure in the home environment and the evaluation of risks to human health - a UK perspective. Indoor Built Environ, 8, 168-175

HARRISON PTC (1999) Book Review: A disease of modern life? "Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth about Environmental Illness" by S Barrett & R Gots , Prometheus Books, Loughton, Essex. Chem Ind, 9, 355-356

HARRISON PTC, Levy LS, Patrick G, Pigott GH & Smith LL (1999) Comparative hazards of chrysotile asbestos and its substitutes: A European perspective. Environ Health Perspect, 107, 607-611

HARRISON PTC (1999) Editorial: Creature comforts - living with mites and moulds. Clin Exper Allergy, 29, 148-149

Taylor MR, Holmes P, Duarte-Davidson R, Humfrey CDN & HARRISON PTC (1999) A research strategy for investigating the ecological significance of endocrine disruption: Report of a UK workshop. Sci Total Environ, 233, 181-191

Taylor MR & HARRISON PTC (1999) Ecological effects of endocrine disruption: Current evidence and research priorities. Chemosphere, 39, 1237-1248

Tuckett CJ, Holmes P & HARRISON PTC (1998) Airborne particles in the home. J Aerosol Sci, 29
(suppl 1), S293-S294

HARRISON PTC (1997) Book Review: "1997 NSCA Pollution Handbook" edited by Loveday Murley, NSCA, Brighton. Indoor Built Environ, 6, 315

HARRISON PTC (1997) Endocrine disrupters - mountain or molehill. Environ Inf Bull, 71, 8-11

HARRISON PTC (1997) Health impacts of indoor air pollution. Chem Ind, 17, 677-681

HARRISON PTC (1997) Male reproductive health and environmental exposure - is there a link? Sci Parliament, 54, 14-16

HARRISON PTC, Hoskins JA, Brown RC, Hext PM & Pigott GH (1997) Pulmonary hyperplastic and neoplastic changes in rats treated concurrently with chrysotile asbestos and NHMI. Ann Occup Hyg, 41 (suppl), 293-297

HARRISON PTC, Holmes P & Humfrey CDN (1997) Reproductive health in humans and wildlife: Are adverse effects trends associated with environmental chemical exposure? Sci Total Environ, 205, 97-106

HARRISON P (1996) Book Review: "Acid Rain" edited by J Rose, Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, Switzerland. Int J Environ Sci, 50, 73-74

HARRISON PTC (1996) Editorial: UK Government initiatives on indoor air quality in the home. Indoor Built Environ, 5, 129-131

Smith L & HARRISON P (1996) Indoor air quality and health - can we make a difference? Environ Health, 104, 321-324

HARRISON P (1994) Book Review: "1994 NSCA Pollution Handbook" edited by Loveday Murley, NSCA, Brighton. Indoor Environ, 3, 169-170

HARRISON PTC (1992) Propionic acid and the phenomenon of rodent forestomach tumorigenesis: A review. Food Chem Toxicol, 30, 333-340

Scholes EW, Basketter DA, Sarll AE, Kimber I, Evans CD, Miller K, Robbins MC, HARRISON PTC & Waite SJ (1992) The local lymph node assay: Results of a final inter-laboratory validation under field conditions. J Appl Toxicol, 12, 217-222

Basketter DA, Scholes EW, Kimber I, Botham PA, Hilton J, Miller K, Robbins MC, HARRISON PTC & Waite SJ (1991) Inter-laboratory evaluation of the local lymph node assay and comparison with guinea pig test data. Hum Exper Toxicol, 10, 475

Basketter DA, Scholes EW, Kimber I, Botham PA, Hilton J, Miller K, Robbins MC, HARRISON PTC & Waite SJ (1991) Inter-laboratory evaluation of the local lymph node assay - results of an inter-laboratory trial. Toxicol Methods, 1, 30-43

HARRISON PTC, Grasso P & Badescu V (1991) Early changes in the forestomach of rats, mice and hamsters exposed to dietary propionic and butyric acid. Food Chem Toxicol, 29, 367-371

HARRISON PTC (1991) Prevention of artefactual vacuolation in rat forestomach epithelial cells by the use of an ethanol-glycerol-acetic acid-formol saline fixative. Anim Technol, 42, 293-295

Kimber I, Hilton J, Botham PA, Basketter DA, Scholes EW, Robbins MC, HARRISON PTC, Gray TJB & Waite SJ (1991) The murine local lymph node assay - results of an inter-laboratory trial. Toxicol Lett, 55, 203-213

HARRISON PTC, Gray TJB & Grasso P (1990) A preliminary study of early changes in the forestomach of rats exposed to dietary propionic acid. Hum Exper Toxicol, 9, 122

HARRISON PTC & Heath JC (1988) Apparent synergy between chrysotile asbestos and N-nitrosoheptamethyleneimine in the induction of pulmonary tumors in rats. Carcinogenesis,
9, 2165 -2171

HARRISON PTC & Heath JC (1986) Apparent synergy in lung carcinogenesis: Interactions between N-nitrosoheptamethyleneimine, particulate cadmium and crocidolite asbestos fibres in rats. Carcinogenesis, 7, 1903-1908

HARRISON PTC (1986) Asbestos bodies in rat lung following intratracheal instillation of chrysotile. Lab Anim, 20, 132-137

HARRISON PTC & Rogers DC (1985) Harrison's ethanol-acetic acid-formol saline fixative (EAFS) is further improved by the incorporation of glycerol. Lab Anim, 19, 152

HARRISON PTC (1984) A technique for investigating food utilization in individual small aquatic invertebrates. Comp Biochem Physiol, 77A, 769-771

HARRISON PTC (1984) An ethanol-acetic acid-formol saline fixative for routine use with special application to the fixation of non-perfused rat lung. Lab Anim, 18, 325-331

HARRISON PTC & Finn JP (1982) Spontaneous mononuclear cell leukaemia with prominent erythrophagocytosis in Fischer F344 rats. Z Versuchstierk, 24, 38

HARRISON PTC (1979) Some seasonal and laboratory changes in the oxygen consumption of the freshwater pulmonate Lymnaea stagnalis (L.). J Therm Biol, 4, 137-146

HARRISON PTC (1977) Laboratory induced changes in the heart rate of Lymnaea stagnalis (L.). Comp Biochem Physiol, 58A, 43-46

HARRISON PTC (1977) Seasonal changes in the heart rate of the freshwater pulmonate Lymnaea stagnalis (L.). Comp Biochem Physiol, 58A, 37-41

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Books/Reports

Stephen Holgate, Jonathan Grigg, Raymond Agius, John Ashton, Paul Cullinan, Karen Exley, David Fishwick, Gary Fuller, Nikhil Gokhani, Chris Griffiths, Paul HARRISON, John Henderson, Mike Holland, John Holloway, George Morris, Patrick Saunders, Samantha Walker, Dafydd Walters (2016) Every Breath we take: The lifelong impact of air pollution. London, RCP.

HARRISON P (2009) Summary overview of environment and health performance reviews for Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia. Copenhagen, Denmark. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Krzyzanowski M & HARRISON PTC, eds. (1999) Strategic Approaches to Indoor Air Policy-Making, Bilthoven, Netherlands, World Health Organization European Centre for Environment and Health.

Book Chapters

Rocks SA, Pollard SJ, Dorey RA, HARRISON PTC, Levy LS, Handy RD, Garrod JF & Owen R (2009) Risk assessment of manufactured nanomaterials. In: Lead J & Smith E (eds) Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Nanotechnology, Blackwell Science

Ashdown, L.; Harrison, P.T.C.; Holmes, P.; Takayima, M. (2009) "United Kingdom" in: P. Wexler, S.G. Gilbert, P.J. Hakkinen, A. Mohapatra (eds) Information Resources in Toxicology. 4th ed. Academic Press, p. 1177 - 1211

HARRISON P, Slack R & Bagga S (2008) Indoor Air Pollution. In: Kay AB, Bousquet J, Holt AP & Kaplan AP, eds., Allergy and Allergic Diseases, 2nd edition, London, UK, Blackwell Publishing, pp1279-1289

HARRISON PTC (2006) Assessing risks to human health. In: Hester RE & Harrison RM, eds, Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No.22, Chemicals in the Environment: Assessing and Managing Risk, Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry.

HARRISON PTC (2002) Indoor air quality guidelines. In: Rooley RH & Sherratt A, eds, Air Quality for People, Cambridge, UK, Mid Career College Press, pp 61-70

HARRISON PTC (2002) Lifestyle and indoor air pollution: Irritative agents. In: D'Amato G & Holgate ST, eds, The Impact of Air Pollution on Respiratory Health, European Respiratory Monograph 21, Vol 7, Sheffield, UK, European Respiratory Society, pp 117-132

HARRISON PTC (2001) Health effects of environmental chemicals. In: Harrison RM, ed, Pollution Causes, Effects and Control (Fourth Edition), Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry,
pp 500-523

Botham CA, Holmes P & HARRISON PTC (1999) Endocrine disruption in mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. In: Hester RE & Harrison RM, eds, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No.12, Cambridge, UK, The Royal Society of Chemistry, pp 61-82

Phillips B & HARRISON PTC (1999) Overview of the endocrine disrupters issue. In: Hester RE & Harrison RM, eds, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No.12, Cambridge, UK, The Royal Society of Chemistry, pp 1-26

HARRISON PTC & Llewellyn JW (1998) Exposure to asbestos and man-made mineral fibres in buildings and the consequences for health. In: Design, Construction and Operation of Healthy Buildings: Solutions to Global and Regional Concerns, Atlanta GA, USA, ASHRAE, pp 83-93

HARRISON PTC (1998) Health effects of indoor air pollutants. In: Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, Vol 10, Air Pollution and Health, Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry,
pp 101-125

Bergman A, Brandt I, Brouwer B, HARRISON P, Holmes P, Humfrey C, Keiding N, Randall G, Sharpe R & Skakkebaek N (1997) Environmental endocrine disrupters: Background and review of conclusions and research recommendations from previous assessments and reports. In: European Workshop on the Impact of Endocrine Disrupters on Human Health and Wildlife: Report of the Proceedings, 2-4 December 1996, Weybridge, UK (EUR 17549), Brussels, Belgium, European Commission, pp 63-125
Brown RC, HARRISON PTC, Pigott GH & Rossiter CE (1997) Health effects of asbestos and man-made mineral fibres. In: Fibrous Materials in the Environment, Leicester, UK, Institute for Environment and Health, pp 77-93

HARRISON PTC & Brown RC (1997) Discussion and risk assessment of environmental exposure to fibrous materials. In: Fibrous Materials in the Environment, Leicester, UK, MRC Institute for Environment and Health, pp 95-106

HARRISON PTC (1996) Health effects of environmental chemicals. In: Harrison RM, ed, Pollution Causes, Effects and Control (Third Edition), Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry, pp 418-436

HARRISON PTC (1993) The importance of indoor air quality. In: Designing Homes for Healthy Living, London, UK, NHPTC, p 4

HARRISON PTC & Heath JC (1991) Apparent promotion by chrysotile asbestos of NHMI-initiated lung tumours in the rat. In: Brown RC & Hoskins JA, eds, Mechanisms of Fibre Carcinogenesis, New York NY, USA, Plenum Press, pp 469-480

HARRISON PTC (1987) Asbestos and man-made fibres. In: A Quarterly Bulletin on Health, Safety and the Environment, London, BP International Ltd., pp 14-1

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