Effects of occupational lead and cadmium exposure on some immunoregulatory cytokine levels in man

Toxicology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 143-147

  Yucesoy B ^a   Turhan, A ^b   Ure M ^c   Imir, T ^b   Karakaya, A ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Social Security Council   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cytokine; Immune sysem; Lead

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; LEAD; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CADMIUM; CYTOKINES; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-2; LEAD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0343416898     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(97)00107-8     Document Type: Article

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