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Document ID (ISN)50235
CIS number 88-1630
ISBN(s) 91-7900-165-3
Year 1986
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Schütz A.
Title Metabolism of inorganic lead at occupational exposure
Bibliographic information Lund University, Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Hygiene, Lund, Sweden, 1986. 46p. 142 ref.
Abstract Contents of this thesis: sources of lead exposure in Sweden; absorption, distribution and excretion; toxic effects; the metabolic model; chelatable lead; materials and methods; decay of blood lead level after end of exposure; studies of the skeletal lead pool; lead mobilisation test; discussion. The thesis is based on 6 papers which are appended.
Descriptors (primary) energy metabolism; lead
Descriptors (secondary) toxic effects; metabolic detoxication; long-term exposure; short-term exposure; thesis
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Lead and compounds
Inorganic substances