Assessment of occupational genotoxic risk in the production of rubber tyres

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 583-592

  Laffon, Blanca ^a   Teixeira, Joao Paulo ^b   Silva, Susana ^b   Roma Torres, Joana ^b   Pérez Cadahía, Beatriz ^a   Méndez, Josefina ^a   Pásaro, Eduardo ^a   Mayan, Olga ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Metabolic polymorphisms; Micronucleus; Rubber tyres; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

COMET ASSAYS; CYTOGENETIC TESTS; GENOTOXIC RISKS; METABOLIC POLYMORPHISMS; MICRONUCLEUS (MN); SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGES (SCE); EPOXIDE HYDROLASES; GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS; GENOTOXIC EFFECTS; MICRONUCLEUS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TEST FREQUENCIES; WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS;

BIOMARKERS; CARCINOGENS; METABOLISM; RUBBER PRODUCTS; TIRES; TOXICITY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUBBER; WHEELS;

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RUBBER INDUSTRY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; ENZYME; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1; SULFIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA CROSS LINKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; URINARY EXCRETION; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RUBBER; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SULFIDES;

EID: 33749616615     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mel036     Document Type: Article

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