Responses in the respiratory tract of rats following exposure to sulphuric acid aerosols for 5 or 28 days

Journal of Applied Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 387-395

  Kilgour, Joanne D ^a   Foster, John ^a   Soames, Anthony ^a   Farrar, David G ^b   Hext, Paul M ^a  

^a JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ineos Manufacturing Scotland Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFURIC ACID;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARYNX; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; METAPLASIA; PATHOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; LARYNX; LUNG; MALE; METAPLASIA; NASAL CAVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SULFURIC ACIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036854533     PISSN: 0260437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jat.875     Document Type: Article

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