Cytogenetic monitoring of occupational exposure to pesticides: Characterization of GSTM1, GSTT1, and NAT2 genotypes

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 263-269

  Scarpato, Roberto ^a   Migliore, Lucia ^a   Hirvonen, Ari ^b   Falck, Ghita ^b   Norppa, Hannu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Genetic polymorphisms; Glutathione S transferase M1; Glutathione S transferase T1; Micronuclei; N acetyltransferase 2; Pesticide exposure; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030016899     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1996)27:4<263::AID-EM3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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