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Biomonitoring of gasoline station attendants exposed to benzene: Effect of gender
- Source :
- Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 813:1-9
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Women are employed in increasing numbers as gasoline station attendants, a work category with risk of exposure to benzene. We have assessed the effect of gender on biomarkers of occupational benzene exposure. Gasoline station attendants (20 men and 20 women) and 40 control individuals (20 men and 20 women) with no history of occupational benzene exposure were evaluated. Benzene exposure was monitoring by environmental and biological measurements. Urinary trans,trans-muconic acid levels, well-known genetic and hematological alterations linked to benzene exposure, and non-cancer effects on the immune, hepatic, and renal systems were investigated. Our results suggest a potential effect of gender on some effects of occupational benzene exposure, particularly the hematological parameters and trans,trans-muconic acid levels. Despite limitations of our study, our findings provide important considerations about occupational exposure of women to benzene and may contribute to the development of occupational protection standards.
- Subjects :
- Male
0301 basic medicine
Muconic acid
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Toxicology
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Occupational Exposure
Environmental health
Biomonitoring
Genetics
Humans
Medicine
Benzene
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Gasoline station
business.industry
Potential effect
030104 developmental biology
chemistry
Female
Occupational exposure
business
Gasoline
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13835718
- Volume :
- 813
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a116b2c3c6b06c144ebe9cb4dc85bfa