Neurobehavioural changes and persistence of complaints in workers exposed to styrene in a polyester boat building plant: Influence of exposure characteristics and microsomal epoxide hydrolase phenotype

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 103-112

  Viaene, M K ^a   Masschelein, R ^a   Pauwels, W ^b   Veulemans, H ^b   Roels, H A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Laboratory of Occupational Toxicology and Hygiene   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microsomal epoxide hydrolase; Neurobehavioural performance; Neurotoxicity; Styrene

Indexed keywords

EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; POLYESTER; STYRENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING DISORDER; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPOXIDE HYDROLASES; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHENOTYPE; POLYESTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHIPS; STYRENE;

NES;

EID: 0035126740     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.58.2.103     Document Type: Article

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