DNA damage in workers occupationally exposed to photocopying machines in Coimbatore south India, using comet assay

Internet Journal of Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Manikantan, Pappuswamy ^a   Vellingiri, Balachandar ^a   Sasikala, Keshavarao ^a   Mohanadevi, Subramanium ^a   Lakshmankumar, Balasubramanium ^b  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Comet; DNA damage; Photocopy workers; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOTOCOPIER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 77954287514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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