High nitrate content in drinking water: Cytogenetic effects in exposed children

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 458-461

  Tsezou, Aspasia ^a   Kitsiou Tzeli, S ^a   Calla, A ^a   Gourgiotis, D ^a   Mitrou, S ^a   Sinaniotis, C ^a   Papageorgiou, J ^b   Molybdas, P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SISTER CHROMATID; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0030458333     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039896.1996.9936046     Document Type: Article

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