Exposure to indoor background radiation and urinary concentrations of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a marker of oxidative DNA damage

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 213-215

  Sperati, Alessandra ^a   Abeni, Damiano D ^a,b   Tagesson, Christer ^c   Forastiere, Francesco ^a   Miceli, Maria ^a   Axelson, Olav ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Free radicals; Radon; radiation

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; FREE RADICAL; GUANINE; MARKER; RADON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032945984     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107213     Document Type: Article

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