Hexavalent chromium responsible for lung lesions induced by intratracheal instillation of chromium fumes in rats

Industrial Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 36-46

  Toya, Tadao ^a   Fukuda, Kazuo ^a   Kohyama, Norihiko ^a   Kyono, Hiroko ^a   Arito, Heihachiro ^a  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromium (III) oxide; Chromium (VI) oxide; Chromium fumes; Intratracheal instillation; Lung; Rats

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC OXIDE; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CARBONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOAM CELL; FUME; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG TOXICITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRACHEA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032994694     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.37.36     Document Type: Article

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