Cytogenetic biomonitoring of inhabitants of a large uranium mineralization area: The municipalities of Monte Alegre, Prainha, and Alenquer, in the State of Pará, Brazil

Cell Biology and Toxicology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 403-419

  Guimarães, Adriana Costa ^a   Antunes, Lusânia Maria Greggi ^c   Ribeiro, Helem Ferreira ^a   Dos Santos, Ândrea Kelly Ribeiro ^a   Dos Santos Cardoso, Plínio Cerqueira ^a   De Lima, Patrícia Lima ^a   Seabra, Aline Damasceno ^a   Pontes, Thaís Brilhante ^a   Pessoa, Claudia ^b   De Moraes, Manoel Odorico ^b   Cavalcanti, Bruno Coelho ^b   Sombra, Carla Maria Lima ^b   De Oliveira Bahia, Marcelo ^a   Burbano, Rommel Rodríguez ^a,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d ICB   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Genotoxicity; Populational biomonitoring; Uranium

Indexed keywords

MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; RADON; URANIUM;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAZIL; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTOXICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANEUGENS; BRAZIL; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MINING; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANTS; URANIUM;

EID: 77957710007     PISSN: 07422091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10565-010-9152-8     Document Type: Article

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