Relations between occupational exposure to coal mine dusts, erythrocyte catalase and Cu++Zn++ superoxide dismutase activities, and the severity of coal workers' pneumoconiosis

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 533-540

  Nadif, Rachel ^a,b   Bourgkard, Eve ^a   Dusch, Martine ^a,b   Bernadac, Pierre ^c   Bertrand, Jean Pierre ^d   Mur, Jean Marie ^a,b   Pham, Quang Thieu ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^d Houilleres du Bassin de Lorraine   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Coal workers' pneumoconiosis; ; Dust exposure; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CATALASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUST EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031873238     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.8.533     Document Type: Article

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