Octachlorostyrene

Encyclopedia of Toxicology: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 648-651

  Nakajima, T ^a   Yanagiba, Y ^b  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aluminum foundry workers; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; By product; Constitutive androsten receptor; Cytochrome P450; Liver hypertrophy; Occupational exposure; Octachlorostyrene; Persistent and bioaccumulative halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon; Porphyrin metabolism; Seafood; Sulfotransferase; Thyroid; UDP glucuronosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911938573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386454-3.00415-2     Document Type: Chapter

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