Inhalative exposure to vanadium pentoxide causes DNA damage in workers: Results of a multiple end point study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1689-1693

  Ehrlich, Veronika A ^a   Nersesyan, Armen K ^a   Atefie, Kambis ^a   Hoelzl, Christine ^a   Ferk, Franziska ^a   Bichler, Julia ^a   Valic, Eva ^b   Schaffer, Andreas ^c   Schulte Hermann, Rolf ^a   Fenech, Michael ^d   Wagner, Karl Heinz ^e   Knasmüller, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Workers Compensation Board   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Cytokinesis block micronucleus assay; DNA damage; Occupational exposure; Vanadium pentoxide

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DNA; DNA BASE; DNA FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; ENDONUCLEASE; FOLIC ACID; PURINE; PYRIDOXINE; PYRIMIDINE; VANADIUM PENTOXIDE; VANADIUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER RISK; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INHALATION; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EXPOSURE;

RODENTIA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 58149340579     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11438     Document Type: Article

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