The urinary excretion of solvents and gases for the biological monitoring of occupational exposure: A review

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 3-12

  Gobba, F ^a   Ghittori, S ^b   Imbriani, M ^c   Maestri, L ^b   Capodaglio, E ^c   Cavalleri, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics; Biological monitoring; Exposure indices; Hydrocarbons; Ketones; Occupational exposure; Organic solvents; Urinary excretion of unmodified solvent

Indexed keywords

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; 2 BUTANONE; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; ACETONE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZENE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CYCLOHEXANE; ENFLURANE; HALOTHANE; HEXANE; HYDROCARBON; ISOFLURANE; KETONE; METHYL CHLORIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; PENTANE; SOLVENT; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PLASTIC INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ABSORPTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BODY BURDEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLVENTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; URINE;

EID: 0030909676     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)05476-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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