Urine mutagenicity of petroleum plant workers |
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| Authors: | B Sadurska W Zieliński E Skalska-Hilgier B Tudek M Szczypka T Szymczyk |
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| Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland. |
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| Abstract: | The mutagenicity of urinary extracts from workers employed in a petroleum plant was analyzed by means of the plate test using S. typhimurium strains TA98 and TA100. Mean urinary mutagenic activities in TA98 were 2-14 times higher in the petroleum plant workers than in the control group. In TA100 these differences were even bigger, the mutagenicity in petroleum plant workers' urine being 3-42 times higher than in the control group. These results suggest that the environmental exposure of people to mutagenic substances is markedly increased in a petrochemical plant. |
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