Evaluation of genetic damage in a Brazilian population occupationally exposed to pesticides and its correlation with polymorphisms in metabolizing genes

Mutagenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 415-422

  Da Silva, Juliana ^a   Moraes, Camila R ^b   Heuser, Vanina D ^b,c   Andrade, Vanessa M ^b,d   Silva, Fernanda R ^b   Kvitko, Kátia ^b   Emmel, Vanessa ^b   Rohr, Paula ^b   Bordin, Diana Lilian ^e   Andreazza, Ana Cristina ^e   Salvador, Mirian ^e   Henriques, João A P ^a,b,e   Erdtmann, Bernardo ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP1A1 GENE; CYP2E1 GENE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE; GSTM1 GENE; GSTP1 GENE; GSTT1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PON GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; BRAZIL; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2E1; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYMES; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 50849118806     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gen031     Document Type: Article

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