Biological monitoring of carbon disulphide: Kinetics of urinary 2-thiothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA) in exposed workers

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Chang, Ho Yuan ^a   Chou, Tzu Chieh ^a   Wang, Peng Yau ^b   Shih, Tung Sheng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

biological monitoring; carbon disulphide; kinetics; urinary TTCA

Indexed keywords

2 MERCAPTOTHIOPROLINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; CURVE FITTING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; URINALYSIS; URINE VOLUME; WORKER;

ADULT; CARBON DISULFIDE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 0036488256     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0748233702th125oa     Document Type: Article

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