Chronic exposure to urban air pollution induces structural alterations in murine pulmonary and coronary arteries

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 247-253

  Lemos, Miriam ^a   Mohallen, Soraia V ^a   Macchione, Mariangela ^a   Dolhnikoff, Marisa ^a   Assunção, João V ^a   Godleski, John J ^b   Saldiva, Paulo H N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; RENAL ARTERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CARBON MONOXIDE; CITIES; CORONARY VESSELS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYOCARDIUM; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULMONARY ARTERY; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 31644447943     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370500444247     Document Type: Article

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