Environmental and occupational exposure to chemicals and telomere length in human studies

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 1058, 2013, Pages 722-728

  Zhang, Xiao ^a   Lin, Shao ^b   Funk, William E ^c   Hou, Lifang ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BENZENE; CARBON; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1; LEAD; NITROSAMINE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TOLUENE;

AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; REVIEW; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84887632695     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-101350rep     Document Type: Review

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