Assessment of airborne exposure to endotoxin and pyrogenic active dust using Electrostatic Dustfall Collectors (EDCs)

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 75, Issue 8-10, 2012, Pages 501-507

  Liebers, Verena ^a   Van Kampen, Vera ^a   Bünger, Jürgen ^a   Düser, Maria ^a   Stubel, Heike ^a   Brüning, Thomas ^a   Raulf Heimsoth, Monika ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPOSTING; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEVICES; DUST EXPOSURE; ELECTROSTATIC DUSTFALL COLLECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

CHEMOKINE CCL2; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; GERMANY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LIMULUS TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOIL; SOLVENTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84862525702     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2012.674919     Document Type: Article

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