Urinary biomarkers of exposure to jet fuel (JP-8)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1760-1764

  Serdar, Berrin ^a   Egeghy, Peter P ^a   Waidyanatha, Suramya ^b   Gibson, Roger ^b   Rappaport, Stephen M ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene; Biomarkers; Exposure assessment; Jet fuel; JP 8; Naphthalene; Naphtols; Urine

Indexed keywords

1 NAPHTHOL; 2 NAPHTHOL; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; FOSSIL FUEL; NAPHTHALENE;

AIR FORCE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0242539871     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6275     Document Type: Article

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