Meta-analysis of rat lung tumors from lifetime inhalation of diesel exhaust

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 693-699

  Valberg, Peter A ^a,b   Crouch, Edmund A C ^a  

^a Cambridge Environmental Inc   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Exposure response; Inhalation toxicology; Lung cancer; Lung overload; Multistage model; Risk assessment; Threshold of response; Unit risk

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; EXHAUST GAS; INHALATION; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032851326     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107693     Document Type: Article

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