DNA damage detected by the comet assay in the white blood cells of workers in a wooden furniture plant

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 444, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-74

  Palus, Jadwiga ^a   Dziubałtowska, Elzbieta ^a   Rydzyński, Konrad ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Furniture manufacture; Human white blood cell; Occupational exposure; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPENTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FURNITURE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MUTAGENICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; WOOD; WOOD DUST;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; WOOD;

EID: 0041769135     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00089-3     Document Type: Article

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