Glycophorin a somatic cell mutation frequencies in Finnish reinforced plastics workers exposed to styrene

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 801-810

  Bigbee, William L ^a,b,f   Grant, Stephen G ^a,b   Langlois, Richard G ^c   Jensen, Ronald H ^d   Anttila, Ahti ^e   Pfäffli, Pirkko ^e   Pekari, Kaija ^e   Norppa, Hannu ^e  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN A; STYRENE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GLYCOPHORIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLASTICS; SMOKING; STYRENE; STYRENES;

EID: 0029858061     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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