Exposure to environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Influences on cellular susceptibility to DNA damage (sampling Košice and Sofia)

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 620, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 145-154

  Cebulska Wasilewska, Antonina ^a,b   Pawłyk, Igor ^a   Panek, Agnieszka ^a   Wiecheć, Anna ^a   Kalina, Ivan ^c   Popov, Todor ^d   Georgieva, Tzveta ^d   Farmer, Peter B ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^d National Center of Public Health Protection Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Kinetics; Life style factors; PAHs; Polymorphism; SCGE assay

Indexed keywords

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CHRYSENE; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; INDENO[1,2,3 CD]PYRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RADIATION TOLERANCE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34248669558     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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