Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a family of chlorinated hydrocarbons that are ubiquitous in the environment. Many of them have very long half-lives in humans and other animals and can be detected in biological tissue in most people in industrialized countries. Incidents of poisoning from rice o
Neurotoxicity induced by exposure to toluene
✍ Scribed by C. Abbate; C. Giorgianni; F. Munaò; R. Brecciaroli
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
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