Cytogenetic changes in subjects occupationally exposed to benzene

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 307-310

  Kašuba, Vilena ^a   Rozgaj, Ružica ^a   Šentija, Karmela ^b  

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

^b University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; SHOE INDUSTRY; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING;

ADULT; BENZENE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0342948599     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00265-9     Document Type: Article

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