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Genotoxic damage in mine workers exposed to diesel exhaust, and the effects of glutathione transferase genotypes.
Mutation research - 6 Jun 2005
Knudsen L E, Gaskell M, Martin E A, Poole J, Scheepers P T J, Jensen A, Autrup H, Farmer P B
Abstract excerpt
This study was performed in an Estonian shale-oil mine with the purpose to develop and apply a number of biomarkers for occupational diesel-exhaust exposure monitoring. Increased breathing-zone exposures to exhaust from operators of diesel-powered trucks in the mine was confirmed in the environmental monitoring part of the study, showing a 7.5-fold higher exposure to particle-associated 1-nitropyrene (1-NP) in 50...
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