Ausgabe 4/2009
Inhalt (9 Artikel)
Special Feature
Biological effects of fibrous and particulate substances and related areas: foreword
Takemi Otsuki
Special Feature
Cytokine alteration and speculated immunological pathophysiology in silicosis and asbestos-related diseases
Shuko Murakami, Yasumitsu Nishimura, Megumi Maeda, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroaki Hayashi, Ying Chen, Masayasu Kusaka, Takumi Kishimoto, Takemi Otsuki
Special Feature
Behavior of rock wool in lungs after exposure by nasal inhalation in rats
Yuichiro Kudo, Yoshiharu Aizawa
Regular Article
Paradoxical increases in serum levels of highly chlorinated PCBs in aged women in clear contrast to robust decreases in dietary intakes from 1980 to 2003 in Japan
Akio Koizumi, Kouji H. Harada, Bita Eslami, Yoshinori Fujimine, Noriyuki Hachiya, Iwao Hirosawa, Kayoko Inoue, Sumiko Inoue, Shigeki Koda, Yukinori Kusaka, Katsuyuki Murata, Kazuyuki Omae, Norimitsu Saito, Shinichiro Shimbo, Katsunobu Takenaka, Tatsuya Takeshita, Hidemi Todoriki, Yasuhiko Wada, Takao Watanabe, Masayuki Ikeda
Commentary
Radiation unlikely to be responsible for high cancer rates among distal Hiroshima A-bomb survivors
Eric J. Grant, Yukiko Shimizu, Fumiyoshi Kasagi, Harry M. Cullings, Roy E. Shore
Commentary
Answer to the comments by Eric J. Grant et al. in “Radiation unlikely to be responsible for high cancer rates among distal Hiroshima A-bomb survivors”
Masaru Miyao, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Ryumon Honda, Yuichi Yamada