DNA damage and cholinesterase activity in occupational workers exposed to pesticides

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 278-285

  Singh, Satyender ^a   Kumar, Vivek ^b   Thakur, Sachin ^a   Banerjee, Basu Dev ^b   Chandna, Sudhir ^c   Rautela, Rajender Singh ^a   Grover, Shyam Sunder ^a   Rawat, Devendra Singh ^a   Pasha, Syed Tazeen ^a   Jain, Sudhir Kumar ^d   Ichhpujani, Rattan Lal ^a,d   Rai, Arvind ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^d National Centre for Disease Control   (India)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase activity; Comet assay; DNA damage; Hepatic toxicity; Nephrotoxicity; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHLORPYRIFOS; CREATININE; DNA; MALATHION; PESTICIDE; PIRIMIPHOS METHYL; TEMEFOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; COMET ASSAY; CREATININE; DNA DAMAGE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

EID: 79951724130     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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