Exposure matrix development for the Libby cohort

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 963-967

  Noonan, Curtis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; VERMICULITE;

AIR SAMPLING; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAMILY HEALTH; MINING; MONTANA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 33747678775     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370600835021     Document Type: Review

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