Occupational exposure to formaldehyde and alterations in lymphocyte subsets

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 252-257

  Hosgood, H Dean ^a   Zhang, Luoping ^b   Tang, Xiaojiang ^c   Vermeulen, Roel ^d   Hao, Zhenyue ^e   Shen, Min ^a   Qiu, Chuangyi ^c   Ge, Yichen ^c   Hua, Ming ^c   Ji, Zhiying ^b   Li, Senhua ^c   Xiong, Jun ^f   Reiss, Boris ^d   Liu, Songwang ^g   Xin, Kerry X ^b   Azuma, Mariko ^b   Xie, Yuxuan ^c   Freeman, Laura Beane ^a   Ruan, Xiaolin ^c   Guo, Weihong ^b   Galvan, Noe ^b   Blair, Aaron ^a   Li, Laiyu ^c   Huang, Hanlin ^c   Smith, Martyn T ^b   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Lan, Qing ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Guangdong Poison Control Center   (China)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^f Dongguan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^g Qiaotou Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

B cell; Formaldehyde; NK cell; T cell; T cell subset

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LINEAR MODELS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84872424144     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22088     Document Type: Article

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