Colour vision and contrast sensitivity losses of mercury intoxicated industry workers in Brazil

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 523-529

  Ventura, D F ^a   Simoes A L ^a   Tomaz, S ^a   Costa, M F ^a   Lago, M ^a   Costa, M T V ^a   Canto Pereira, L H M ^a   De Souza, J M ^a   Faria, M A M ^a   Silveira, L C L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Colour discrimination; Contrast sensitivity; Koniocellular; Magnocellular; Mercury toxicity; Occupational exposure; Parvocellular; Visual evoked potential; Visual function impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUMINANCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MERCURIALISM; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 20144388964     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2004.12.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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