Health effects of embedded depleted uranium

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 117-119

  McClain, David E ^a   Benson, Kimberly A ^a   Dalton, Tom K ^a   Ejnik, John ^a   Emond, Christy A ^a   Hodge, Shelly J ^a   Kalinich, John F ^a   Landauer, Michael R ^a   Livengood, David R ^a   Miller, Alexandra C ^a   Pellmar, Terry C ^a   Stewart, Michael D ^a   Villa, Vilmar ^a   Xu, Jiaquan ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BODY SIZE; BONE TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; IMPLANTATION; INJURY; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; MUSCLE TISSUE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036182547     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.suppl_1.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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