Natural History of the Human Biological Response to Environmental Exposure and Injury
Natural History of The Human Biological Response to Environmental Exposure and Injury
- Inflammation
- Normal Controls
- Metabolic Disease
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase not stated
- Study type
- Observational
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- Enrolment target
- 2,000
- Started
- 16 November 2021
- Main results due
- 31 December 2031
- Study sites
- 1
- Registry updated
- 28 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Ages 18 years to 90 years.
- Open to any sex.
- Healthy volunteers can take part.
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Read the full eligibility criteria
* INCLUSION CRITERIA: In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria: 1. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study. 2. Ability to provide informed consent. 3. Able to read and speak English 4. Male or female, aged \>=18 5. Able to travel to the NIEHS CRU for study visits or travel to an offsite event or conference. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: 1. Not willing to have samples stored for future use. 2. Current pregnancy or lactation, by participant verbal confirmation. 3. Any condition that, in the investigator's opinion, places the participant at undue risk for complications associated with required study procedures. Participants will be enrolled according to pre-defined host (e.g. disease, genetic, or demographic) or environmental (exposure) characteristics.
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
Background:
Environmental exposures like pollution, diet, and stress can help cause human diseases, or make them worse. Researchers want to better understand how injury and inflammation are caused by these exposures. They want to collect biological and environmental samples and other data. They may use the samples to measure a range of factors, like hormones, toxins, and chemicals. This will help them improve their studies.
Objective:
To identify and understand how environmental exposures contribute to human disease.
Eligibility:
Healthy adults ages 18 and older
Design:
Participants will be screened with questions about their health history, demographics, and medicines they take.
Participants may give blood, hair, stool, saliva, and/or urine samples. They may have a skin punch biopsy to collect skin cells. They may give fingernail or toenail clippings. They may give a sample of exhaled breath.
Participants may give a sputum sample. They will inhale a saline mist and cough mucus into a cup.
Participants may have their nasal passages brushed, scraped, or washed.
Participants may give cheek cell samples. They will swish mouthwash and spit it into a cup.
Participants who produce sperm may give samples.
Participants may have bronchoscopy to collect fluid. A saline solution will be put into their lung and then suctioned out, washing areas of the lung.
Participants may have a pelvic or transvaginal ultrasound. They may have lung function tests.
Participants may collect household dust, urine, or stool at home.
Participants will complete surveys about their health, diet, and exposures.
Participation will last for one or more study visits.
Participants may be contacted in the future to take part in other studies.
Study sites(1)
NIEHS Clinical Research Unit (CRU)
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States
Recruiting
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04888923. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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