The role of oxygen free radicals in occupational and environmental lung diseases

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 165-177

  Vallyathan, Val ^a,b   Shi, Xianglin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asbestosis; Coal workers' pneumoconiosis; Environmental lung diseases; Occupational lung diseases; Oxygen free radicals; Reactive oxygen species; Silicosis

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BLEOMYCIN; CHROMIUM; CIGARETTE SMOKE; COAL; CYTOKINE; HERBICIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030887077     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s1165     Document Type: Review

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