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Pulmonary responses to purified zinc oxide fume.

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1995

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Ware G. Kuschner, A. D’Alessandro, Stephen F. Wintermeyer, Hofer Wong, Homer A. Boushey, Paul D. Blanc
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Abstract

Purified zinc oxide fume inhalation causes an exposure-dependent increase in proinflammatory cytokines and PMNs in the lung. This supports a role for cytokine networking in mediating metal fume fever.