Accelerated telomere shortening in peripheral blood lymphocytes after occupational polychlorinated biphenyls exposure

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 289-300

  Ziegler, Susanne ^a   Schettgen, Thomas ^b   Beier, Fabian ^a   Wilop, Stefan ^a   Quinete, Natalia ^b   Esser, Andre ^b   Masouleh, Behzad Kharabi ^a   Ferreira, Monica S V ^a   Vankann, Lucia ^a   Uciechowski, Peter ^a   Rink, Lothar ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^b   Brümmendorf, Tim H ^a   Ziegler, Patrick ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymphocytes; Occupational exposure; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL DNA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TELOMERASE; 2,4,4'-TRICHLOROBIPHENYL; CARCINOGEN; DRUG RESIDUE;

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CELL CLONING; CELL EXPANSION; CELL RENEWAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RECYCLING; TOXICOKINETICS;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESIDUES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; KINETICS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECYCLING; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TOXICOKINETICS;

EID: 84966389427     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-016-1725-8     Document Type: Article

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