Responses of rat nasal epithelium to short- and long-term exposures of ozone: Image analysis of epithelial injury, adaptation and repair

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 276-286

  Harkema, Jack R ^a   Barr, Edward B ^b   Hotchkiss, Jon A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

metaplasia; mucus; nasal epithelium; ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BODY FLUIDS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CELL POPULATIONS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METAPLASIA; MORPHO-LOGICS; MUCUS; NASAL EPITHELIUM; URBAN AIR;

OZONE;

OZONE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METAPLASIA; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030944424     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970215)36:4<276::AID-JEMT5>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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