Assessment of early acute lung injury in rats exposed to aerosols of consumer products: Attempt to disentangle the "magic nano" conundrum

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1245-1262

  Pauluhn, Jurgen ^a,c   Hahn, Axel ^b   Spielmann, Horst ^b  

^a BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c Institute of Toxicology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSAMINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 55949090319     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370802220634     Document Type: Article

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