Genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to lead and cadmium

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 540, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-28

  Palus, J ^a   Rydzynski, K ^a   Dziubaltowska, E ^a   Wyszynska, K ^a   Natarajan, A T ^b   Nilsson, R ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Comet assay; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Human lymphocytes; Lead; Micronuclei; Occupational exposure; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; ANEUGEN; BROXURIDINE; CADMIUM; CLASTOGEN; DNA FRAGMENT; LEAD; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CADMIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CELL DAMAGE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRIDIZATION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; SOMATIC CELL; WORKER;

EID: 0041324620     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(03)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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