The elderly as a sensitive population in environmental exposures: Making the case

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 207, Issue , 2010, Pages 95-157

  Risher, John F ^a   Todd, G Daniel ^a   Meyer, Dean ^b   Zunker, Christie L ^c  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

AGED; AGING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 77956069454     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6406-9_2     Document Type: Article

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