Environmental uranium and human health

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 147-157

  Taylor, David M ^a,b   Taylor, Sarah K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM; URANIUM 238;

AEROSOL; BONE; BUILDING; CANCER RISK; CARDIOTOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; EUROPE; FOOD; HEALTH; HUMAN; INGESTION; INHALATION; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PROBABILITY; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEW; ROCK; SKELETON; SOIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URANIUM MINE; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0030690920     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.1997.12.3.147     Document Type: Review

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