White blood cell count as an indicator of formaldehyde exposure

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-267

  Kuo, H W ^a   Jian, G J ^a   Chen, C L ^a   Liu, C S ^a   Lai, J S ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FORMALDEHYDE; SODIUM PERCHLORATE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RHINORRHEA; TAIWAN; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VERTIGO; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030878699     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900473     Document Type: Article

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