Skin diseases and enzymatic antioxidant activity among workers exposed to pesticides

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 363-373

  Amer, M ^a   Metwalli, M ^a   El Magd, Y Abu ^a  

^a ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; LIVER ENZYME; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHLORACNE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DERMOGRAPHISM; DRY SKIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PATCH TEST; PIGMENT DISORDER; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN TOXICITY; URINALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBARYL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DIAZINON; EGYPT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PYRETHRINS; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN TESTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 4444239366     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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