Arsenic and peripheral blood count in workers exposed to urban stressors

Clinica Terapeutica

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Caciari, T ^a   Capozzella, A ^a   Tomei, F ^a   Nieto, H A ^b   De Sio, S ^a   Montuori, L ^a   Schifano, M P ^a   Andreozzi, G ^a   Fiaschetti, M ^a   Tomei, G ^a   Ciarrocca, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Hematopoietic system; Urban pollutant; Workers

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URBAN AREA; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ARSENIC; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84880217815     PISSN: 00099074     EISSN: 19726007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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