Selected parameters of immunological response in hop growers during the period of intensive application of pesticides

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-231

  Tokarska Rodak, Małgorzata ^a   Toś Luty, Sabina ^a   Haratym Maj, Agnieszka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hops growers; MPO; Neutrophils

Indexed keywords

MYELOPEROXIDASE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BASOPHIL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EXPOSURE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM TEST; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLAND; TILLAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; HUMULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEROXIDASE; PESTICIDES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLAND;

HUMULUS; HUMULUS LUPULUS;

EID: 11244325885     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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