Effects of pesticides on occupationally exposed humans

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 1211-1220

  Piperakis, Stylianos M ^a,b   Kontogianni, Konstantina ^a,b   Piperakis, Michael M ^c   Marcos, Ricardo ^d   Tsilimigaki, Smaragdi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; DNA repair; Greenhouses; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DNA DAMAGE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; SPAIN;

EID: 34548048968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2006.207     Document Type: Review

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