Genetic damage in operating room personnel exposed to isoflurane and nitrous oxide

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 433-437

  Hoerauf, Klaus ^a   Lierz, Michael ^b   Wiesner, Gunther ^a   Schroegendorfer, Klaus ^a   Lierz, Peter ^a   Spacek, Anna ^a   Brunnberg, Leo ^b   Nüsse, Michael ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics; Micronuclei; Mutagenicity tests; Occupational exposure; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAS WASTE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METAPHASE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS RATE; MUTAGEN TESTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; TOBACCO; VENOUS BLOOD;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033040255     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.56.7.433     Document Type: Article

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