Biomarkers of genetic damage and inflammation in blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid among former German uranium miners: A pilot study

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-282

  Popp, W ^a   Plappert, U ^b   Muller W U ^a   Rehn, B ^a   Schneider, J ^c   Braun, A ^d   Bauer, P C ^a   Vahrenholz, C ^a   Presek, P ^d   Brauksiepe, A ^a   Enderle, G ^b   Wust T ^a   Bruch, J ^a   Fliedner, T M ^b   Konietzko, N ^a   Streffer, Christian ^a   Woitowitz, H J ^c   Norpoth, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RADON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DAMAGE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENESCENCE; SMOKING; URANIUM MINE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COMET ASSAY; FIBRONECTINS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; URANIUM;

EID: 0034501034     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110000072     Document Type: Article

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