Complex Exposures - Air Pollution

Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 343-358

  Loft, Steffen ^a   Vaclavik Bräuner, Elvira ^a   Forchhammer, Lykke ^a   Pedersen, Marie ^a   Knudsen, Lisbeth E ^a   Møller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biologically effective dose biomarkers; Complex exposures air pollution; Cytogenetic markers in chromosomal aberrations; Human biomonitoring oxidative DNA damage; Molecular epidemiology and complex exposure effect; Molecular epidemiology paradigm and air pollution; Ultrafine particle (UFP) fraction; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865456220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470725726.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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