The contribution of acute toxicity in animals to occupational exposure limits of chemical substances

Industrial Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22-27

  Suda, Megumi ^a   Tsuruta, Hiroshi ^a   Honma, Takeshi ^a  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficients; LC50; LD50; Mice; Rats; TLV STEL; TLV TWA

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; LC 50; LD 50; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033000094     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.37.22     Document Type: Article

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