Manganese accumulation in the olfactory bulbs and other brain regions of "asymptomatic" welders

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 160-167

  Sen, Suman ^a,b,d   Flynn, Michael R ^c   Du, Guangwei ^d   Tröster, Alexander I ^a   An, Hongyu ^a   Huang, Xuemei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Manganese; MRI; Olfactory bulb; Welding

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OLFACTORY BULB; PUTAMEN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMELLING; WELDING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79955387706     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfr033     Document Type: Article

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