Balkan endemic nephropathy, the haematopoietic system and the environmental connection

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-247

  Tatu, C A ^a,c   Drugarin, D ^b   Paunescu, V ^b   Stanescu, D I ^b   Schneider, F ^b  

^a Forslys Group   (Romania)

^b VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOSINOPHIL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANEMIA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EOSINOPHILS; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; ROMANIA; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0032549449     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(97)00137-3     Document Type: Article

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