Potential biomarker of coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 297-302

  Kim, K A ^a   Lim, Y ^a   Kim, J H ^a   Kim, E K ^a   Chang, H S ^a   Park, Y M ^a   Ahn, B Y ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Growth factors; IL 8; Pneumoconiosis; TNF

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COAL; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 8; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOCYTE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COAL; DUST; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MONOCYTES; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0032823846     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(99)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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