Manganese accumulation in nail clippings as a biomarker of welding fume exposure and neurotoxicity

Toxicology

Volumn 291, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 73-82

  Sriram, Krishnan ^a   Lin, Gary X ^a   Jefferson, Amy M ^a   Roberts, Jenny R ^a   Andrews, Ronnee N ^a   Kashon, Michael L ^a   Antonini, James M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Biomonitoring; Brain; Manganese; Nail; Neurotoxicity; Occupational exposures; Parkinson's disease; Parkinsonism; Welder; Welding fume; Workplace monitoring

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE CHLORIDE; STEEL; TRACE ELEMENT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NAIL; NEUROTOXICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WELDING FUME;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOOF AND CLAW; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MALE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE POISONING; METALS; NAILS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WELDING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84155164941     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: 18793185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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