Vanadium in Ambient Air: Concentrations in Lung Tissue from Autopsies of Mexico City Residents in the 1960s and 1990s

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 446-449

  Fortoul, Teresa Imelda ^a   Quan Torres, Alma ^a   Sánchez, Ivonne ^a   López, Irma Elena ^a   Bizarro, Patricia ^a   Mendoza, Maria Luisa ^b   Osorio, Liliana Saldivar ^b   Espejel Maya, Guadalupe ^b   Avila Casado, Maria Del Carmen ^c   Avila Costa, Maria Rosa ^d   Colin Barenque, Laura ^d   Villanueva, Daniel Navarro ^e   Olaiz Fernandez, Gustavo ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Atomic absorption spectrometry; Lung; Vanadium

Indexed keywords

VANADIUM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

EID: 0036771539     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890209601436     Document Type: Article

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