Urinary excretion of ethylenethiourea in five volunteers on a controlled diet (multicentric study)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 167-179

  Aprea, C ^a   Betta, A ^e   Catenacci, G ^b   Colli, A ^e   Lotti, A ^e   Minoia, C ^c   Olivieri, P ^b   Passini, V ^d   Pavan, I ^d   Roggi, C ^b   Ruggeri, R ^e   Sciarra, G ^a   Turci, R ^c   Vannini, P ^e   Vitalone, V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Dietary intake; Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates; Ethylenethiourea; General population

Indexed keywords

2 IMIDAZOLIDINETHIONE; CARBON SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VEGETABLE; WINE;

ADULT; CARBON; CARBON COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIET; EATING; ETHYLENETHIOUREA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SULFIDES; URINE; VEGETABLES; WINE;

EID: 0030739922     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)00145-9     Document Type: Article

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