Determination of urinary hippuric acid and o-cresol levels as biological indicators of toluene exposure in shoe-workers and glue sniffers

Biomarkers

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-127

  Çok, Ismet ^a   Dagdelen, Ayfer ^a   Gökçe, Esin ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Glue sniffing; Hippuric acid; O cresol; Toluene; Urine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIPPURIC ACID; ORTHO CRESOL; TOLUENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLUE SNIFFING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOE INDUSTRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINE LEVEL; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CRESOLS; HIPPURATES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SHOES; SMOKING; SOLVENTS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOLUENE;

EID: 0038546993     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1354750031000119398     Document Type: Article

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