Inhalation tolerance study for p-aramid respirable fiber-shaped particulates (RFP) in rats

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 237-250

  Bellmann, B ^a,b   Creutzenberg, O ^a   Dasenbrock, C ^a   Ernst, H ^a   Pohlmann, G ^a   Muhle, H ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dust overloading; Fiber shaped; Inhalation; Lung; P aramid; Particulates; Rat

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYAMIDE;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHALATION; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALIA; ARAMIDAE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0034019761     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/54.1.237     Document Type: Article

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