Review of the occupational exposure to isocyanates: Mechanisms of action

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-6

  Nakashima, Kazuko ^a   Takeshita, Tatsuya ^a   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinogenicity; Diisocyanate; Genotoxicity; Immunology; Review

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; DIPHENYLMETHANE 4,4' DIISOCYANATE; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; HEXAMETHYLENE DIISOCYANATE; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; ISOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYURETHAN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLUENE DIISOCYANATE;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; CARCINOGENICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG TUMOR; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0036221818     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.2002.1     Document Type: Review

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