Human exposure assessment and the National Toxicology Program

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 623-627

  Lucier, George W ^a   Schecter, Arnold ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Gene environment mixtures; National Toxicology Program; Risk assessment; Sensitive subpopulations

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GENOME; HEALTH PROGRAM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0032407920     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3434088     Document Type: Article

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