Low level occupational benzene exposure and hematological parameters

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 184, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 94-100

  Swaen, Gerard M H ^a   van Amelsvoort, Ludovic ^b   Twisk, Johannes J ^a   Verstraeten, Etienne ^a   Slootweg, Ronald ^a   Collins, James J ^a   Burns, Carol J ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benzene; Hematological effects; Low level exposure; Occupation

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TOXICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SMOKING; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

ADULT; BENZENE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 77950629361     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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