Environmental impacts on children's health in southeast Asia: Genotoxic compounds in urban air

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1076, Issue , 2006, Pages 678-690

  Ruchirawat, Mathuros ^a,b   Navasumrit, Panida ^a   Settachan, Daam ^a   Autrup, Herman ^c  

^a Toxicology and Management of Chemicals   (Thailand)

^b Mahidol University ^*  (Thailand)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bangkok; Biomarker; Children; DNA damage

Indexed keywords

1 HYDROXYPYRENE; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA MARKER; MUCONIC ACID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; CHILD HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; RURAL AREA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; URINE LEVEL;

EID: 33845742565     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1371.037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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