Occupational exposure to lead and induction of genetic damage

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 295-298

  Vaglenov, Alexander ^a   Creus, Amadeu ^b   Laltchev, Stoyan ^c   Petkova, Vera ^c   Pavlova, Sonya ^c   Marcos, Ricardo ^b  

^a National Center of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Genetoxicity; Lead exposed workers; Lymphocytes; Micronucleus assay

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035047836     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109295     Document Type: Article

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