Chairman's Science Lecture 1997 at British Pharmaceutical Conference, Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 15-18, 1997: Something in the air: Endotoxins and glucans as environmental troublemakers

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-17

  Young, R S ^a   Jones, A M ^a   Nicholls, P J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; BINDING PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCAN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; BRONCHITIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; EXPOSURE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; REVIEW;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BRONCHITIS; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; GLUCANS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 0031609123     PISSN: 00223573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7158.1998.tb03299.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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