Controlled exposures of healthy and asthmatic volunteers to concentrated ambient fine particles in Los Angeles

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-325

  Gong Jr , Henry ^a,b,d   Linn, William S ^a,b   Sioutas, Constantinos ^c   Terrell, Sheryl L ^a   Clark, Kenneth W ^a   Anderson, Karen R ^a   Terrell, Lester L ^a  

^a RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c 51 MSB ^*  (United States)

^d Environmental Health Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOLOGY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FILTER; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REST; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0037393556     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370304455     Document Type: Article

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