Genotoxic risk assessment of pathology and anatomy laboratory workers exposed to formaldehyde by use of personal air sampling and analysis of DNA damage in peripheral lymphocytes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 605, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 30-41

  Orsiere T ^a   Sari Minodier, I ^a,b   Iarmarcovai, G ^a,b   Botta, A ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Centromere micronucleus assay; Chemiluminescence microplate assay; Occupational exposure; Personal air sampling

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ADULT; AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; TIME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; METABOLISM; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT ABSORPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33646759264     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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