Monitoring of DNA damage in individuals exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons in Ecuador

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1140, Issue , 2008, Pages 121-128

  Paz Y Miño, César ^a,b   López Cortés, Andrés ^a   Arévalo, Melissa ^a   Sánchez, María Eugenia ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chromosomal alterations test; Chromosomes; Comet Assay; CYP 1A1; DNA; Genotoxicity; Hydrocarbons; Malformations; MSH2

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MSH2;

CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMET ASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECUADOR; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 54949141114     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1454.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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