Biomonitoring a human population inhabiting nearby a deactivated uranium mine

Toxicology

Volumn 305, Issue , 2013, Pages 89-98

  Lourenco J ^a   Pereira, R ^a,b   Pinto, F ^c   Caetano, T ^a   Silva, A ^d   Carvalheiro, T ^d   Guimaraes A ^a   Goncalves F ^a   Paiva, A ^d   Mendo, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Centro de Saúde de Mangualde   (Portugal)

^d IP   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; Immunotoxicity; Ionizing radiation; Metals; Uranium wastes

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MANGANESE; RADIOISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM; ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; URANIUM MINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL COUNT; COMET ASSAY; DENDRITIC CELLS; DNA BREAKS; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PHENOTYPE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873711757     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: 18793185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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