The comet assay as a rapid test in biomonitoring occupational exposure to DNA-damaging agents and effect of confounding factors

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1005-1015

  Moller, P ^a   Knudsen, L E ^a   Loft, S ^a   Wallin, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DNA; HAIR DYE; IODINE 131; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PESTICIDE; STYRENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

AGE; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMET ASSAY; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INFECTION; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOCYTE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SUNLIGHT; WOOD DUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMET ASSAY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUTAGENS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEASONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033790136     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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