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Genotoxicity to human cells induced by air particulates isolated during the Kuwait oil fires.
Environmental research - 1 Jan 1994
Kelsey K T, Xia F, Bodell W J, Spengler J D, Christiani D C, Dockery D W, Liber H L
Abstract excerpt
In an effort to examine the potential of exposure to soot from the 1991 oil fires in the Kuwait desert for inducing genetic effects we studied the in vitro genotoxicity of this material. Air particulates isolated near the Kuwait oil fires were studied using three assays. Dose-dependent increases were observed for both sister chromatid exchanges in human peripheral blood lymphocytes and mutation at the hprt locus...
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