Antinuclear antibodies among eastern-Polish rural inhabitants

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-209

  Śpiewak, Radosław ^a   Stojek, Nimfa M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agricultural chemicals; Antinuclear antibodies; Autoantibodies; Autoimmunity; Environmental exposure; Farmers; Health effects; Immunotoxicology; Pesticides; Rural population

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CENP ANTIBODY; DNA ANTIBODY; JO 1 ANTIBODY; LA ANTIBODY; PESTICIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; RO ANTIBODY; SCL 70 ANTIBODY; SM ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOANTIGENS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PESTICIDES; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0347131116     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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