Evaluation of genetic damage in workers employed in pesticide production utilizing the Comet assay

Mutagenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-205

  Grover, Paramjit ^c   Danadevi, K ^a   Mahboob, M ^c   Rozati, R ^a   Banu, B Saleha ^b   Rahman, M F ^c  

^a DECCAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMET ASSAY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0037339367     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/18.2.201     Document Type: Article

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