Occupational exposure to heavy metals: DNA damage induction and DNA repair inhibition prove co-exposures to cadmium, cobalt and lead as more dangerous than hitherto expected

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-73

  Hengstler, Jan G ^a   Bolm Audorff, Ulrich ^d   Faldum, Andreas ^e   Janssen, Kai ^f   Reifenrath, Michael ^a   Götte, Walter ^a   Jung, Detlev ^b   Mayer Popken, Otfried ^b   Fuchs, Jürgen ^c   Gebhard, Susanne ^a   Bienfait, Heinz Günter ^d   Schlink, Kirsten ^a   Dietrich, Cornelia ^a   Faust, Dagmar ^a   Epe, Bernd ^e   Oesch, Franz ^a  

^a Institute of Toxicology   (Germany)

^b Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)   (Germany)

^c Institute of Environmental Toxicol   (Germany)

^d Labour Inspection   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYGUANINE; CADMIUM; COBALT; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OXIDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; URINALYSIS;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CADMIUM; COBALT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG SYNERGISM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; GUANINE; HUMANS; LEAD; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 20244382069     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/24.1.63     Document Type: Article

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