Health risks from combined exposures: Mechanistic considerations on deviations from additivity

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 411, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-128

  Burkart, Werner ^a   Jung, Thomas ^a  

^a Institute for Radiation Hygiene/BfS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined effect; Health risk; Ionizing radiation; Mechanism of carcinogenesis; Modeling; Synergism; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031671110     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(98)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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