Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects Associated with Dinitrotoluene Exposure

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-229

  Tchounwou, Paul B ^a   Newsome, Cecilia ^a   Glass, Konsuela ^a   Centeno, Jose A ^b   Leszczynski, Jerzy ^a   Bryant, Joseph ^c   Okoh, Joseph ^d   Ishaque, Ali ^d   Brower, Marius ^e  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenicity; Dinitrotoluenes; Genotoxicity; Health effects; Systemic tioxicity; Toxicokinetics

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,4-DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6 DINITROTOLUENE; 2,6-DINITROTOLUENE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; EXPLOSIVE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; AIR POLLUTANT; ANEMIA; ANIMAL; APPETITE DISORDER; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSURE; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INGESTION; INHALATION; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY TUMOR; LASSITUDE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAIN; PALLOR; PARALYSIS; PARESTHESIA; PHARMACOKINETICS; RAT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TUMOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASTE DISORDER; THORAX PAIN; TREMOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242354018     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.2003.18.3.203     Document Type: Review

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