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Risk assessment of welders using analysis of eight metals by ICP-MS in blood and urine and DNA damage evaluation by the comet and micronucleus assays; influence of XRCC1 and XRCC3 polymorphisms.
Mutagenesis - 1 Nov 2005
Iarmarcovai G, Sari-Minodier I, Chaspoul F, Botta C, De Méo M, Orsière T, Bergé-Lefranc J L, Gallice P, Botta A
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The aims of the present study were to assess the occupational risk of welders using analysis of metals in biological fluids, DNA damage evaluation by complementary genotoxic endpoints and the incidence of polymorphisms in DNA repair genes. A biomonitoring study was conducted that included biometrology (blood and urinary concentrations of aluminium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, nickel, zinc by...
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