Monitoring of fluoro-edenite fibre pollution through the study of sheep lymph nodes as a model of a biological indicator

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 656-

  Rapisarda, V ^a   Rapisarda, G ^a   Vico, G D ^a   Gobbi, L ^b   Loreto, C ^c   Valentino, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; ASBESTOS FIBER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUOROEDENITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DUST EXPOSURE; HISTOLOGY; LETTER; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ASBESTOS, AMPHIBOLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MESOTHELIOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SHEEP; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24044457292     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.020727     Document Type: Letter

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