DNA damage in Pakistani pesticide-manufacturing workers assayed using the comet assay

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 587-593

  Bhalli, Javed A ^a   Khan, Q M ^a   Nasim, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^b National Commission on Biotechnology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Genetic damage; Molecular biomarkers; Pakistan; Pesticides production

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBAMIC ACID; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WORKER;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMET ASSAY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; PESTICIDES;

EID: 33750708856     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20232     Document Type: Article

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