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Natural History of the Human Biological Response to Environmental Exposure and Injury

Natural History of The Human Biological Response to Environmental Exposure and Injury

Who can join

Ages 18 to 90 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

* 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.

About the study

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.

Sponsor: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) · Participants: 2,000 · Started: Nov 16, 2021

Contact the study team

• NIEHS Join A Study Recruitment Group · Phone: (855) 696-4347
• Lawrence S Kirschner, M.D. · Phone: (984) 287-3562

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT04888923

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Metabolic Disorders

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.