Toxic Load Modeling

Inhalation Toxicology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 137-158

  Sommerville, Douglas R ^a   Park, Kyong H ^a   Kierzewski, Michael O ^a   Dunkel, Michael D ^b   Hutton, Matthew I ^b   Pinto, Nirmala A ^b  

^a EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OptiMetrics Inc   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420037302-13     Document Type: Chapter

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