Study of inflammatory responses to crocidolite and basalt wool in the rat lung

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 409-415

  Adamis, Zoltán ^a   Kerényi, Tibor ^b   Honma, Koichi ^c   Jäckel, Márta ^b   Tátrai, Erzsébet ^a   Ungváry, György ^a  

^a Jozsef Fodor National Center for Public Health   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CROCIDOLITE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; DUST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; WOOL;

ANIMALS; ASBESTOS, CROCIDOLITE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUNG; MALE; MINERALS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PNEUMONIA; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILICATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035831356     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/152873901300018174     Document Type: Article

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