Quantifying postural tremor in workers exposed to low levels of manganese

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-255

  Beuter, Anne ^a,b   Lambert, Gabriel ^a   MacGibbon, Brenda ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c GERAD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Manganese exposure; Neurotoxicity; Parkinson's disease; Postural tremor

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MANGANESE BLOOD LEVEL; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSCILLATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEARMAN RANK COEFFICIENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREMOR;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSCILLOMETRY; POSTURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREMOR;

EID: 5644231082     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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