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Lead toxicity: current concerns.
Over the 20-year period since the first issue of Environmental Health Perspectives was published, there has been considerable progress in the understanding of the potential toxicity of exposure to lead. Many of these advances have been reviewed in published symposia, conferences, and review papers in EHP. This brief review identifies major advances as well as a number of current concerns that p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3431524