Rapid communication: Acute exposure to mercury from dental amalgam does not affect the levels of C-reactive protein or interleukin-6 in peripheral blood

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 495-499

  Sandborgh Englund, Gunilla ^a   Geijersstam, Eric Af ^a   Loftenius, Annika ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DENTAL ALLOY; INTERLEUKIN 6; MERCURY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DENTAL AMALGAM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEAD; MALE;

EID: 0037470938     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390306352     Document Type: Article

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