Comparison of inducible nitric oxide synthase gene expression and lung inflammation following intratracheal instillation of silica, coal, carbonyl iron, or titanium dioxide in rats

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-218

  Blackford, John A ^a   Jones, William ^b   Dey, Richard D ^a   Castranova, Vincent ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL IRON; COAL; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; INTRATRACHEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; COAL; DUST; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IRON; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEUTROPHILS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TITANIUM; TRACHEA;

EID: 0031001167     PISSN: 00984108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00984109708984022     Document Type: Article

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