Trichloroethene levels in human blood and exhaled breath from controlled inhalation exposure

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 573-580

  Pleil, Joachim D ^a   Fisher, Jeffrey W ^b   Lindstrom, Andrew B ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Breath measurement; Breath sampling; Partition coefficients; Time constants; Trichloroethene; Uptake and elimination models

Indexed keywords

TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREATH ANALYSIS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCRETION; EXHALATION; FEMALE; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031788825     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106573     Document Type: Article

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