24 Months inhalation carcinogenicity study of bitumen fumes in Wistar (WU) rats

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages 20-43

  Fuhst, Rainer ^a   Creutzenberg, Otto ^a   Ernst, Heinrich ^a   Hansen, Tanja ^a   Pohlmann, Gerhard ^a   Preiss, Alfred ^a   Rittinghausen, Susanne ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR TOXICOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 34248641683     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620701326257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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