Oxidant stress, antioxidants and nitric oxide in traffic police of Hyderabad, India

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 321-325

  Suresh, Y ^a   Sailaja Devi, M M ^a   Manjari, V ^a   Das, U N ^b  

^a Clin Immunol Biochem LVP   (India)

^b EFA Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Lung disease; Nitric oxide; Oxidant stress; Pollution; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; CERULOPLASMIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEMOLYSATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLICE; TRAFFIC;

EID: 0034079361     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00254-7     Document Type: Article

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