Hair can be a good biomarker of occupational exposure to mercury vapor: Simulated experiments and field data analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4484-4488

  Li, Ping ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Qiu, Guangle ^a   Wan, Qi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Hair; Mercury vapor; Occupational exposure; Washing effect

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; DIRECT ABSORPTION; FIELD DATA ANALYSIS; HAIR; HG MINING; INORGANIC MERCURY; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MERCURY VAPOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SCALP HAIR; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; TOTAL GASEOUS MERCURIES; TOTAL MERCURIES;

DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); WASHING;

VAPORS;

MERCURY;

ADSORPTION; ARTISANAL MINING; BIOMARKER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HAIR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ABSORPTION; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR; HUMAN; MINER; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HAIR; HUMANS; MERCURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 80052039593     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.045     Document Type: Article

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