Assessment of the health effects of trichloroethylene

Industrial Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-324

  Kaneko, Takashi ^a   Wang, Pei Yu ^a   Sato, Akio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinogenicity; Mutagenicity; Risk assessment; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; MUTAGENIC AGENT; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL MODEL; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TERATOGENICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030757807     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.35.301     Document Type: Review

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