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Toxic effects of brake wear particles on epithelial lung cells in vitro

BACKGROUND: Fine particulate matter originating from traffic correlates with increased morbidity and mortality. An important source of traffic particles is brake wear of cars which contributes up to 20% of the total traffic emissions. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential toxicological eff...

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Autores principales: Gasser, Michael, Riediker, Michael, Mueller, Loretta, Perrenoud, Alain, Blank, Fabian, Gehr, Peter, Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8977-6-30