The tar fraction of cigarette smoke does not promote arteriosclerotic plaque development

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1108-1113

  Penn, Arthur ^a   Keller, Kit ^b   Snyder, Carroll ^a   Nadas, Arthur ^a   Chen, Lung Chi ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerotic plaques; Cigarette smoke; Cigarette tar (fraction); Cockerels

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; 7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ACETONE; CARCINOGEN; CIGARETTE SMOKE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; NITROSAMINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CANCER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOWL; HEART DISEASE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0029989336     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041108     Document Type: Article

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