Micronuclei in peripheral blood lymphocytes as a possible cancer risk biomarker: A cohort study of occupationally exposed workers in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-446

  Znaor, Ariana ^a   Fučić, Aleksandra ^b   Strnad, Marija ^a   Barković, Danica ^c   Škara, Mladen ^d   Hozo, Izet ^e  

^a CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^c Occupational Medicine Office   (Croatia)

^d General Pratice Office   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Biological markers; Epidemiology, molecular; Micronucleus tests; Neoplasms; Occupational exposure; Risk

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SMOKING HABIT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041336718     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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