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ISRN Toxicology
Volume 2013, Article ID 139512, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/139512
Research Article

Validation of the Dynamic Direct Exposure Method for Toxicity Testing of Diesel Exhaust In Vitro

Lucky Joeng,1 Amanda Hayes,1,2 and Shahnaz Bakand1,2,3

1Chemical Safety and Applied Toxicology (CSAT) Laboratories, School of Risk and Safety Sciences, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
2School of Chemistry, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
3Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received 28 May 2013; Accepted 7 July 2013

Academic Editors: D. I. Bannon, A. I. Haza, D. W. Herr, J. P. Petzer, J. V. Rogers, and M. Valverde

Copyright © 2013 Lucky Joeng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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