Chromosome damage in underground coal miners: Detection by conventional cytogenetic techniques and by submitting lymphocytes of unexposed individuals to plasma from at-risk groups

Brazilian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 641-646

  Agostini, J M S ^a,b   Otto, P A ^a   Wajntal, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS INDEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLASMA;

EID: 0030444216     PISSN: 01008455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-84551996000400021     Document Type: Article

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