Effect of exposure to ceramic fibres and cigarette smoke on antioxidant status of the lung

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages 23-26

  Kováčiková, Zuzana ^a   Hurnánková, Marta ^a   Černá, Silvia ^a   Tátrai, Erzsébet ^b   Beňo, Milan ^a   Wimmerová, Soňa ^a  

^a Research Base of the Slovak Medical University   (Slovakia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Antioxidant status; Cigarette smoke; Combined exposure; Lung; Refractory ceramic fibres

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CIGARETTE SMOKE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; REFRACTORY CERAMIC FIBER; SYNTHETIC FIBER; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TISSUE LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 34047238173     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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