Occupational exposure to Benzene and chromosomal structural aberrations in the sperm of Chinese men

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 229-234

  Marchetti, Francesco ^a   Eskenazi, Brenda ^b   Weldon, Rosana H ^b   Li, Guilan ^c   Zhang, Luoping ^b   Rappaport, Stephen M ^d   Schmid, Thomas E ^a   Xing, Caihong ^c   Kurtovich, Elaine ^b   Wyrobek, Andrew J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzene; Chromosome 1; Germ cells; Sperm fluorescence in situ hybridization; Structural aberrations

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; MUCONIC ACID;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; BENZENE; CHINA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SORBIC ACID; SPERMATOZOA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863049714     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103921     Document Type: Article

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