Reduction of carcinogenic chromium(VI) on the skin of living rats

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 524-526

  Liu, Ke Jian ^a   Mäder, Karsten ^a   Shi, Xianglin ^b   Swartz, Harold M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromium; In vivo EPR; Skin

Indexed keywords

CHROMATES; CHROMIUM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RATS; SKIN;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; EPR SPECTROSCOPY; IN-VIVO; REACTIVE SPECIES; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; STRATUM CORNEUM; TOPICAL APPLICATION; TRANSIENT SPECIES;

CHROMIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

CHROMIUM; DICHROMATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REDUCTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; STRATUM CORNEUM;

EID: 0004729686     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910380403     Document Type: Article

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