CHROMOSOME-ABERRATIONS IN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTES OF WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE PLYWOOD INDUSTRY

Citation
P. Kurttio et al., CHROMOSOME-ABERRATIONS IN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTES OF WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE PLYWOOD INDUSTRY, Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 19(2), 1993, pp. 132-134
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Ergonomics,"Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
ISSN journal
03553140
Volume
19
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
132 - 134
Database
ISI
SICI code
0355-3140(1993)19:2<132:CIPLOW>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Workers employed in sawmills and in the manufacture of plywood are exp osed to potentially mutagenic chemical aromatic emissions from wood. H owever, very little is known about the exposure to these natural wood components. In an attempt to determine whether such exposure could hav e clastogenic effects, a group of 13 male nonsmoking employees mainly from the beginning of the wood-processing line of three plywood mills and 15 matched nonsmoking referents were studied for chromosome aberra tions in blood lymphocytes. A statistically significant elevation of t he frequency of cells with chromatid-type breaks (mean 2.1%), as compa red with the corresponding frequency of the referents (mean 1.0%), was observed for the lymphocytes of the wood workers. These results lend support to previous studies which suggested that wood-drying fumes may be carcinogenic.