Carbon nanotube risk assessment: Implications for exposure and medical monitoring

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Kuempel, Eileen D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALVEOLAR INTERSTITIAL THICKENING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPOPROTEINOSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMONIA; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RATTUS;

EID: 79959190781     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31821b1f3f     Document Type: Article

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