Individual susceptibility to hexavalent chromium of workers of shoe, hide, and leather industries. Immunological pattern of HLA-B8,DR3-positive subjects

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 767-775

  Mignini, Fiorenzo ^a   Streccioni, Valentino ^a   Baldo, Meris ^a   Vitali, Mario ^a   Indraccolo, Ugo ^a   Bernacchia, Gianna ^a   Cocchioni, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cr(III); Cr(VI); Cr(VI) exposed workers; hexavalent chromium; Hexavalent chromium Cr(VI) ; HLA; HLA B8,DR3 alleles; human leukocytes antigen; PBMC; TH1 TH2 system; threshold limit value time weighted average; TLV TWA; trivalent chromium

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B8 ANTIGEN; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DUST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEATHER INDUSTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHOE INDUSTRY; TH1 CELL; URINALYSIS;

CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHROMIUM; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HLA-B8 ANTIGEN; HLA-DR3 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 4444284941     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.02.048     Document Type: Article

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