Occupational genotoxicity among copper smelters

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 789-795

  De Olivera, Juliana Viégas Duarte ^a   Boufleur, Liana Appel ^b   Santos, Carla Eliete Iochims Dos ^b   Dias, Johnny Ferraz ^b   Squeff, Cíntia Haag ^a   Silva, Guilherme Ruivo Gonçalves ^a   Ianistcki, Martus ^a   Benvegnú, Vinícius Cosmos ^a   Silva, Juliana Da ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Comet assay; copper; genotoxicity; Occupational exposure; PIXE

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PROTON INDUCED X RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; SMELTER; SOMATIC CELL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; COMET ASSAY; COPPER; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 84866347134     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233711422735     Document Type: Article

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