Metal fume fever: Characterization of clinical and plasma IL-6 responses in controlled human exposures to zinc oxide fume at and below the threshold limit value

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 722-726

  Fine, Jonathan M ^a   Gordon, Terry ^b   Chen, Lung Chi ^b   Kinney, Patrick ^c   Falcone, Gary ^a   Beckett, William S ^d  

^a NORWALK HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; PYROGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; ZINC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUME; FURNACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INHALATION; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METAL INDUSTRY; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; ZINC OXIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030848962     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199708000-00006     Document Type: Article

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