Multipronged evaluation of genotoxicity in Indian petrol-pump workers

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 695-707

  Pandey, Alok K ^a   Bajpayee, Mahima ^a   Parmar, Devendra ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Rastogi, Subodh K ^a   Mathur, Neeraj ^a   Thorning, Paul ^b   De Matas, Marcel ^b   Shao, Qun ^b   Anderson, Diana ^b   Dhawan, Alok ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; In silico data mining; Indian population; Micronucleus assay; Petrol pump workers

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 BENZENETRIOL; 1,4 BENZOQUINONE; BENZENE; CATECHOL; GASOLINE; HYDROQUINONE; MUCONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FUME; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZENE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; GASOLINE; HUMANS; INDIA; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOLUENE; XYLENES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149156438     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20419     Document Type: Article

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