Non-occupational exposure of Malay women in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to cadmium and lead

Biomarkers

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 81-85

  Moon, Chan Seok ^a   Zhang, Zuo Wen ^a   Watanabe, Takao ^b   Shimbo, Shinichiro ^c   Ismail, Noor Hassim ^d   Hashim, Jamal Hisham ^d   Ikeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Blood; Cadmium; Environmental pollution; Food duplicate; Lead; Malay women; Rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002621411     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13547509609088674     Document Type: Article

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