Selected new developments in asbestos immunotoxicity.
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Selected new developments in asbestos immunotoxicity.
Research over the past three decades has shown that the mammalian immune system can be altered by the occupational exposure of asbestos. Early clinical studies generally focused on systemic observations of immune alteration such as the number and function of peripheral lymphocytes and monocytes. More recently as the regulatory influence of local immunity in health and disease becomes more defin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106s1159