Moldy environments and toxic pneumonitis

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 177-180

  Rylander, R ^a   Fogelmark, B ^a   Ewaldsson, B ^b  

^a Biofact Environmental Health Research Center   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

endotoxin; moulds; neutrophils; organic dusts; toxic pneumonitis

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; GLUCAN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; CHITIN; CURDLAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MANNAN; PULLULAN; SCHIZOPHYLLAN;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DUST; EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PNEUMONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EOSINOPHIL; FUNGAL CELL; GRANULOMATOSIS; INHALATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC DUST; TOXIC PNEUMONITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FUNGI; GLUCANS; GUINEA PIGS; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA;

EID: 59649126730     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233708093356     Document Type: Article

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