Low response in white blood cell DNA adducts among workers in a highly polluted cokery environment

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 529-537

  Kuljukka, Terhi ^a,b   Savela, Kirsti ^a,b   Vaaranrinta, Raija ^a,b   Mutanen, Pertti ^a   Veidebaum, Toomas ^c   Sorsa, Marja ^a   Peltonen, Kimmo ^a,b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory   (Finland)

^c Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Tallinn   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; COKE; DNA; PHOSPHORUS 32; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OIL SHALE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; SKIN; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COKE; DNA ADDUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTONIA; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MUTAGENS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PYRENES; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031870591     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199806000-00005     Document Type: Article

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