Environmental exposure to asbestos and other inorganic fibres using animal lung model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1010-1018

  Fornero, Elisa ^a,b   Belluso, Elena ^b,c   Capella, Silvana ^b   Bellis, Donata ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Environmental exposure; Inorganic fibres; SEM EDS; Sentinel animals

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; EXPLOSIVE ACTUATED DEVICES; FIBERS; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERPENTINE; TEXTILE FIBERS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; COMMERCIAL USES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; HUMAN HEALTHS; HUMAN IMPACTS; INORGANIC FIBRES; LOW DOSES; LUNG MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SEM-EDS; SENTINEL ANIMALS; SERPENTINITE;

ANIMALS;

ASBESTOS;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASBESTOS; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH IMPACT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SERPENTINE; SMOKING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; ITALY; LUNG MODEL; MALE; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SMOKING; SPECTROMETER;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ITALY; LUNG; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, ANIMAL;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 57049160333     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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