N-nitrosamines in the southern Swedish rubber industries - Exposure, health effects, and immunologic markers

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-211

  Jönsson, Lena S ^a   Lindh, Christian H ^a   Bergendorf, Ulf ^a   Axmon, Anna ^a   Littorin, Margareta ^a   Jönsson, Bo A G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airway symptom; Antibody; Biomarker; Exposure response relationship

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NITROSAMINE; RUBBER; 1 NITROSOPIPERIDINE; BUTYLAMINE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIPROPYLNITROSAMINE; ETHYLMETHYLNITROSAMINE; N NITROSOPYRROLIDINE; NITROSOMORPHOLINE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EOSINOPHIL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; ADSORPTION; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COUGHING; EPISTAXIS; EYE DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOARSENESS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THROAT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EOSINOPHILS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROSAMINES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUBBER; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650254728     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.1323     Document Type: Article

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