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Toxicology

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 165-169

  Mukherjee, Amitava ^a   Sengupta, Mrinal Kumar ^a   Hossain, Md Amir ^a   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Das, Bhaskar ^a   Nayak, Bishwajit ^a   Saha, Khitish Chandra ^a   Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra ^a   Pati, Shymapada ^a   Dutta, Rabindra Nath ^a   Chatterjee, Garga ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

BANGLADESH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SPECIES COMPARISON; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARSENIC; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INDIA; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 19944433470     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2004.11.031     Document Type: Review

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