Acute effect of glucan-spiked office dust on nasal and pulmonary inflammation in guinea pigs

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 70, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 1923-1928

  Straszek, S P ^a   Adamcakova Dodd, A ^b   Metwali, N ^b   Pedersen, O F ^a   Sigsgaard, T ^a   Thorne, P S ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURDLAN; GLUCAN; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; GUINEA PIG; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE CONGESTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCANS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DENMARK; DUST; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA;

EID: 35648988028     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390701551266     Document Type: Article

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