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Investigations of the Lung Carcinogenic Potentials of Sodium Dichromate and Cr VI/III Oxide Aerosols in Wistar Rats

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Environmental Hygiene

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Cr is not yet a hazard for the general public, but various epidemiological reviews were in the last decades definetively indicative of excessive lung cancer rates among workers exposed in the chromate-producing industry. The carcinogenic risk at several other working places with Cr VI is also suspected (Ref. 1–3).

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  1. U. Glaser
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  1. Medical Institute of Environmental, Hygiene at the University of Düsseldorf, Auf’m Hennekamp 50, 4000, Düsseldorf 1, Germany

    Norbert H. Seemayer  & Wolfgang Hadnagy  & 

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Glaser, U., Hochrainer, D., Oldiges, H. (1988). Investigations of the Lung Carcinogenic Potentials of Sodium Dichromate and Cr VI/III Oxide Aerosols in Wistar Rats. In: Seemayer, N.H., Hadnagy, W. (eds) Environmental Hygiene. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73766-4_24

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