Working Group Report 1: Tools for the diagnosis of organic dusts-induced disease

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 410-413

  Wouters, Inge M ^a   Sigsgaard, Torben ^b   Góra, Anna ^c   Nowak, Dennis ^d   Palmberg, Lena ^e   Sundblad, Britt Marie ^e   Tutluoglu, Büllent ^f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Inflammation; Lung function; Nasal lavage

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY INFLAMMATION; AIRWAY IRRITATION; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; ORGANIC DUST INDUCED DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; TOXIC PNEUMONITIS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ASTHMA; DUST; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 4944259114     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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