Effects of Pesticides on Occupationally Exposed Humans

Pesticides are known to contain numerous genotoxic compounds; however, genotoxicity biomonitoring studies of workers occupationally exposed to pesticides have produced variable results. In this study, we employed the Comet assay to examine DNA damage in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) from 64 gr...

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Main Authors: Stylianos M. Piperakis, Konstantina Kontogianni, Michael M. Piperakis, Ricardo Marcos, Smaragdi Tsilimigaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2006-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.207