Environmental medicine, Part 1: The human burden of environmental toxins and their common health effects

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 52-63

  Crinnion, Walter J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; TOXIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; REVIEW;

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0034094326     PISSN: 10895159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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