Context: Retrospective exposure assessment in population-based case-control studies poses a major challenge
due to the wide range of occupations and industries involved. The FINJEM is a generic job-exposure
matrix developed in Finland which represents a potentially cost effective exposure assessment tool.
While FINJEM has been used in several studies outside...
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Hospital Research Center,
population health
Kauppinen, T; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Context: Retrospective exposure assessment in population-based case-control studies poses a major challenge
due to the wide range of occupations and industries involved. The FINJEM is a generic job-exposure
matrix developed in Finland which represents a potentially cost effective exposure assessment tool.
While FINJEM has been used in several studies outside...
Context: Retrospective exposure assessment in population-based case-control studies poses a major challenge
due to the wide range of occupations and industries involved. The FINJEM is a generic job-exposure
matrix developed in Finland which represents a potentially cost effective exposure assessment tool.
While FINJEM has been used in several studies outside...
Context: Retrospective exposure assessment in population-based case-control studies poses a major challenge
due to the wide range of occupations and industries involved. The FINJEM is a generic job-exposure
matrix developed in Finland which represents a potentially cost effective exposure assessment tool.
While FINJEM has been used in several studies outside...
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T cell-dependent immune responses are highly sensitive to suppression by
exposure to the environmental contaminant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
(TCDD), yet direct effects of TCDD on T cells have been difficult to demonstrate.
Because the activation of naive T cells is initiated by dendritic cells (DC), the studies
presented in this dissertation were...
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