Cytogenetic effects of occupational exposure in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of pesticide sprayers

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-101

  Kourakis, Anastasios ^a   Mouratidou, Maria ^a   Barbouti, Aikaterini ^a   Dimikiotou, Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTOGEN; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES;

EID: 0029962432     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.1.99     Document Type: Article

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