Cytogenetic and molecular biomonitoring of a Portuguese population exposed to pesticides

Mutagenesis

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 343-350

  Costa, Carla ^a   Teixeira, João P ^a   Silva, Susana ^a   Roma Torres, Joana ^a   Coelho, Patrícia ^a   Gaspar, Jorge ^b   Alves, Maria ^b   Laffon, Blanca ^c   Rueff, José ^b   Mayan, Olga ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^b NOVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; BENOMYL; CAPTAN; CARBENDAZIM; COPPER SULFATE; CYHALOTHRIN; CYROMAZINE; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; DELTAMETHRIN; DIMETHOATE; ENDOSULFAN; FENARIMOL; FUNGICIDE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1; HERBICIDE; HYDROLASE; IMIDACLOPRID; INSECTICIDE; MANCOZEB; METHIOCARB; METHOMYL; MICROSOMAL EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; PESTICIDE; PIRIMICARB; PROPINEB; RODENTICIDE; SULFUR; THIRAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANCER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2E1; DNA DAMAGE; EPOXIDE HYDROLASES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PORTUGAL; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 33749681142     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gel039     Document Type: Article

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