Heavy metals exposure and electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4919-4920

  Costa, Antonella ^a   Branca, Vincenzo ^a   Minoia, Claudio ^b   Pigatto, Paolo D ^a   Guzzi, Gianpaolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Lab Environ/Toxicological Test   (Italy)

^c Italian Association for Metals and Biocompatibility Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; DENTAL ALLOY; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; POLLUTANT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LETTER; MOUTH CAVITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

CADMIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LEAD; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY;

EID: 77955920248     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.045     Document Type: Letter

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