Chronic exposure of rats to occupational textile noise causes cytological changes in adrenal cortex

Noise and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 118-123

  Oliveira, Maria João R ^a   Monteiro, Mariana P ^a   Ribeiro, Andreia M ^a   Pignatelli, Duarte ^b   Águas, Artur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Light microscopy; Morphometry; Noise; Stress; Zona fasciculata; Zona reticularis

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RAT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX DISEASES; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 66749094795     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.50697     Document Type: Article

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