In vivo micronuclei in uncultured T-lymphocytes of male railroad transit workers and referents

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 345-351

  Catalán, Julia ^a,b   Falck, Ghita C M ^a   Järventaus, Hilkka ^a   Kallas Tarpila, Tarja ^a,d   Pitkämäki, Leena ^c   Norppa, Hannu ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c VR Ltd   (Finland)

^d Helsinki Medical Imaging Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autosome; FISH; Fragment; X chromosome; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; SEX CHROMOSOME; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROLEUM; RAILROADS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33745145822     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20213     Document Type: Article

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