Respiratory diseases in hard metal workers: an occupational hygiene study in a factory.

Y Kusaka, Kazuhito Yokoyama, Y Sera, +5

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

AsthmaOccupational HazardsEnvironmental HealthOccupational MedicineHard Metal +18

Hard metal asthma: cross immunological and respiratory reactivity between cobalt and nickel?

Taro Shirakawa, Y Kusaka, Naoki Fujimura, +3

Thorax

AsthmaEnvironmental AllergyImmunologyChemistryRespiratory Reactivity +14

The existence of specific antibodies to cobalt in hard metal asthma

Taro Shirakawa, Y Kusaka, Naoki Fujimura, +2

Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Specific IgE antibodies to nickel in workers with known reactivity to cobalt

Taro Shirakawa, Y Kusaka, Kanehisa Morimoto

Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Greater Trunk Muscle Torque Reduces Postmenopausal Bone Loss at the Spine Independently of Age, Body Size, and Vitamin D Receptor Genotype in Japanese Women

Masayuki Iki, Yukie Saito, Yoshiko Dohi, +4

Calcified Tissue International

Bone DiseaseBone HealthKinesiologyBody CompositionBody Size +10

Effect of hard metal dust on ventilatory function.

Y Kusaka, Yoko Ichikawa, Taro Shirakawa, +1

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

AsthmaAir QualityRespiratory ToxicologyHard Metal DustEnvironmental Health +14

Application of inverse Gaussian distribution to occupational exposure data

Keijiro Takagi, Shunichi Kumagai, Chikako Matsunaga, +1

The Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Physical and personality traits of preschool children in Fuzhou, China: only child <i>vs</i> sibling

D Wang, N. Kato, Yutaka Inaba, +6

Child Care Health and Development

Epidemiological study of hard metal asthma.

Y Kusaka, Masayuki Iki, Souto Kumagai, +1

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Immunomodulation in mineral dust-exposed lungs: stimulatory effect and interleukin-1 release by neutrophils from quartz-elicited alveolitis

Y Kusaka, R. T. Cullen, Ken Donaldson

Clinical & Experimental Immunology