Biomonitoring of genotoxic risk in workers in a rubber factory: Comparison of the Comet assay with cytogenetic methods and immunology

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 445, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-192

  Somorovska M ^a   Szabova E ^a   Vodicka P ^b   Tulinska J ^a   Barancokova M ^a   Fabry R ^a   Liskova A ^a   Riegerova Z ^a   Petrovska H ^a   Kubova J ^a   Rausova K ^a   Dusinska M ^a   Collins, A ^c  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberration; Comet assay; DNA damage; Immunotoxicity; Micronucleus assay; Occupational exposure; Rubber chemicals

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; ACETYLCYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; FLUORANTHENE; NAPHTHALENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MUTAGENICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SLOVAKIA; SMOKING HABIT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMET ASSAY; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RUBBER; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0032705229     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00125-4     Document Type: Article

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