Recent trend in risk assessment of formaldehyde exposures from indoor air

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-98

  Nielsen, Gunnar Damgard ^a   Larsen, Søren Thor ^a   Wolkoff, Peder ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asthma; Cancer; Formaldehyde; Indoor air guideline; Sensory irritation; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AMBIENT AIR; APOPTOSIS; ASTHMA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA CROSS LINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE IRRITATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTOXICITY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MICRONUCLEUS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NONHUMAN; NOSE CARCINOMA; NOSE IRRITATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOXICOKINETICS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WHEEZING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; FRANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RAS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POINT MUTATION; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY TESTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84872312927     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-012-0975-3     Document Type: Review

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