Cytogenetic findings on shoe workers exposed long-term to benzene

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1996, Pages 1313-1317

  Tunca, Berrin Türkei ^a   Egeli, Ünal ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adhesive; Benzene; Chromosome aberrations; Hexane; Lymphocyte cultures; Shoe workers

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; GLUE; HEXANE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOGENETICS; DISTILLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; SMOKING;

EID: 0030458423     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.961041313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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