The toxicity of styrene monomer

Adverse Drug Reactions and Toxicological Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-35

  Sherrington, Emma J ^b   Routledge, Philip A ^a  

^a LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Inhalation; Occupational exposure; Styrene; Styrene monomer

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; HIPPURIC ACID; IMIPRAMINE; MANDELIC ACID; PHENYLGLYOXYLIC ACID; SALBUTAMOL; STYRENE DERIVATIVE; STYRENE OXIDE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INJURY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COUGHING; DISEASE CONTROL; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MUTAGENICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RASH; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; STOMACH LAVAGE; TERATOGENICITY; THORAX DISEASE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; KINETICS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; STYRENES; TERATOGENS;

EID: 0035024094     PISSN: 0964198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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