Sub-chronic lung inflammation after airway exposures to Bacillus thuringiensis biopesticides in mice

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barfod, Kenneth K ^a,b   Poulsen, Steen S ^c   Hammer, Maria ^a   Larsen, Søren T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; PESTICIDE; WATER;

AEROSOL; AIRWAY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INHALATION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG HOMOGENATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSPECIES; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; MUS;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, ANIMAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PESTICIDES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 77956456181     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-233     Document Type: Article

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