Cytogenetic damage in workers from a coal-fired power plant

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 627, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-163

  Celik, Mustafa ^a   Donbak, Lale ^a   Unal, Fatma ^b   Yüzbasioglu, Deniz ^b   Aksoy, Hüseyin ^b   Yilmaz, Serkan ^b  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberrations; Coal combustion products; Coal fired power plant; Genotoxic risk; Micronucleus; Sister chromatid exchange

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDE; CHROMIC ACID; COAL; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MANGANESE DIOXIDE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS PENTOXIDE; SODIUM DERIVATIVE; STRONTIUM; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VANADIUM PENTOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAL WORKER; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COAL; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION; TURKEY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33846256211     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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