Biological monitoring of workers exposed to emissions from petroleum plants

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1996, Pages 609-613

  Anderson, Diana ^a   Hughes, Jane Anne ^a   Cebulska Wasilewska, Antonina ^b   Wierzewska, Anna ^b   Kasper, Eva ^b  

^a BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Petroleum emissions; ras oncoproteins; Workers

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PETROLEUM; PROTEIN P21;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING HABIT;

EID: 0030011090     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104s3609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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