In vitro toxicity of indoor fungi from dwellings in Slovakia: Testing on the isolated lung cells

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 110, Issue , 2008, Pages 211-218

  Kovacikova, Z ^a   Tatrai, E ^b   Pieckova, E ^a   Kollarikova, Z ^a   Jancinova, V ^c   Tulinska, J ^a   Kuricova, M ^a   Liskova, A ^a  

^a SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

In vitro; Indoor fungi; Lung cells; Metabolites

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FUNGUS; INDOOR AIR; METABOLITE; TOXICITY TEST;

ASPERGILLUS USTUS; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; FUNGI; MUS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 58849143415     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ETOX080221     Document Type: Article

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