Toxicity of ultrafine nickel particles in lungs after intratracheal instillation

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 171-176

  Zhang, Qunwei ^a   Kusaka, Yukinori ^a   Sato, Kazuhiro ^a   Mo, Yiqun ^a   Fukuda, Masaru ^a   Donaldson, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Lung toxicity; Ultrafine nickel

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NICKEL; PROTEIN;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TOXICITY; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; RAT; TRACHEA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031825054     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.40.171     Document Type: Article

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