Night shift work job exposure matrices and urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin levels among healthy Chinese women

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 553-559

  Ji, Bu Tian ^a   Gao, Yu Tang ^b   Shu, Xiao Ou ^c   Yang, Gong ^c   Yu, Kai ^a   Xue, Shou Zheng ^a   Li, Hong Lan ^b   Liao, Linda M ^a   Blair, Aaron ^a   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Zheng, Wei ^c   Chow, Wong Ho ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aMT6s; Cancer; China; Job exposure matrix; Melatonin; Nighttime work; Shift work; Urine sample

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; CREATININE; 6-SULFATOXYMELATONIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MELATONIN;

CANCER; HORMONE; METABOLITE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SAMPLING; URINE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE URINE LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; WORK SCHEDULE; AGED; CHINA; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; URINE;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84868562770     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3322     Document Type: Article

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