Tungsten toxicity

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 87-88

  Witten, Mark L ^a   Sheppard, Paul R ^b   Witten, Brandon L ^a  

^a Odyssey Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallon; Leukemia; Nevada; Toxicity; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; TUNGSTEN;

CELL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LEUKEMIA CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 84859744587     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: 18727786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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