Buffering capacity of coal and its acid-soluble Fe2+ content: Possible role in coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 722-729

  Huang, Xi ^a,c   Fournier, Jeanine ^b   Koenig, Karen ^a   Chen, Lung Chi ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PH MEASUREMENT; PNEUMOCONIOSIS;

BUFFERS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL MINING; DUST; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDES; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 0031826287     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx970151o     Document Type: Article

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