Cytogenetic analysis of nasal mucosa cells and lymphocytes from high-level long-term formaldehyde exposed workers and low-level short-term exposed waiters

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 588, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-27

  Ye, Xiaolei ^a   Yan, Wensheng ^b   Xie, Hong ^b,c   Zhao, Meiying ^b,c   Ying, Chenjiang ^a,b,d  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d SHUJITSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Lymphocyte subsets; Micronuclei; Occupational exposure; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MUCOSA CELL; NOSE MUCOSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; STUDENT; WAITER; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; NASAL MUCOSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 27744455427     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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