Immunotoxicity of pesticides: A review

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-132

  Blakley, Barry ^a   Brousseau, Pauline ^b   Fournier, Michel ^b   Voccia, Isabelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell mediated immunity; fungicides; herbicides; humoral immunity; immune response; insecticides; toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; MALATHION; PESTICIDE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHICKEN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOTOXINS; LYMPHOCYTES; PESTICIDES; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033365129     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074823379901500110     Document Type: Article

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