Manganese exposure among smelting workers: Blood manganeseiron ratio as a novel tool for manganese exposure assessment

Biomarkers

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Cowan, Dallas M ^a   Fan, Qiyuan ^b   Zou, Yan ^b   Shi, Xiujuan ^c   Chen, Jian ^c   Aschner, Michael ^d   Rosenthal, Frank S ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZUNYI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Guizhou Institute of Occupational Safety and Health   (China)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Erythrocyte; Exposure assessment; Iron; Manganese; Mn Fe ratio; Saliva; Smelter

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; MANGANESE; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SYNTHESIS; ADOLESCENT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MANGANESE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 66149086560     PISSN: 1354750X     EISSN: 13665804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13547500902730672     Document Type: Article

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