Genotoxicity to human cells induced by air particulates isolated during the Kuwait oil fires.

doi:10.1006/enrs.1994.1003

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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

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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...

Topics

Air Pollutants
Cells, Cultured
District of Columbia
Fires
Humans
Kuwait
Lymphocytes
Mutagenicity Tests
Mutation
Petroleum
Polycyclic Compounds
Sister Chromatid Exchange

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