Atmospheric secondary inorganic particulate matter: The toxicological perspective as a basis for health effects risk assessment

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-235

  Schlesinger, Richard B ^a   Cassee, Flemming ^b  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CYTOKINE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METAL; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OXYGEN; OZONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM SULFITE; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR OXIDE; SULFURIC ACID; SUPEROXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ATMOSPHERE; BRONCHOSPASM; CARCINOGENESIS; EXPOSURE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GAS; HEALTH; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL VOLUME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; NETHERLANDS; PARTICLE SIZE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037349558     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370304503     Document Type: Review

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