On the carcinogenic risk evaluation of diesel exhaust: Benzene in airborne particles and alterations of heme metabolism in lymphocytes as markers of exposure

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 103-111

  Muzyka, V ^a   Veimer, S ^a   Schmidt, N ^a  

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

Author keywords

5 Aminolevulinic acid; Benzene; Diesel exhaust; Ferrochelatase; Protoporphyrin; Synthase of 5 aminolevulinic acid

Indexed keywords

5 AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHASE; BENZENE; FERROCHELATASE; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXHAUST GAS; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; HEME SYNTHESIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HEME; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 0032581228     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00166-1     Document Type: Article

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