Vulnerability of welders to manganese exposure - A neuroimaging study

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 285-292

  Long, Zaiyang ^a,b   Jiang, Yue Ming ^c   Li, Xiang Rong ^d   Fadel, William ^e   Xu, Jun ^a,b   Yeh, Chien Lin ^a,b   Long, Li Ling ^d   Luo, Hai Lan ^c   Harezlak, Jaroslaw ^b,e   Murdoch, James B ^f   Zheng, Wei ^a   Dydak, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Toshiba Medical Research Institute USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Manganese neurotoxicity; Smelting; Welding

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; AIR POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; SMELTER; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; THALAMUS; URINE LEVEL; WELDING; WELDING FUME; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE; INTOXICATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; URINE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; WELDING;

EID: 84921344523     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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