Fibronectin levels within bronchoalveolar lavage from nonhuman primates exposed to generic coal dusts

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 948-953

  Shaw, Joellen ^a   Griffith, James W ^b   Maxlangli, C ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FIBRONECTIN; GROWTH FACTOR; SCLEROPROTEIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT;

EID: 0029790745     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10389995     Document Type: Article

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