Article
Biological effect monitoring in industrial workers following incidental exposure to high concentrations of ethylene oxide.
Mutation research - 1 Jun 1995
Tates A D, Boogaard P J, Darroudi F, Natarajan A T, Caubo M E, van Sittert N J
Abstract excerpt
Peripheral blood from four groups of seven workers from a chemical manufacturing plant in The Netherlands was analyzed for hemoglobin adducts in erythrocytes and for hprt mutants, micronuclei and SCEs in lymphocytes. Group I workers were incidentally exposed to acute high doses of ethylene oxide ranging from 52 to 785 mg/m3. Group II and III workers were chronically exposed to low doses of ethylene oxide for < 5...
Topics
- Accidents, Occupational
- Adult
- Case-Control Studies
- Chemical Industry
- DNA Adducts
- Environmental Monitoring
- Erythrocytes
- Ethylene Oxide
- Hemoglobins
- Humans
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase