Efficacy of Urinary Hippuric Acid as a Biomarker of Low Level Exposure to Toluene in Petroleum Depot Workers

Exposure to toluene can be associate with genotoxicity, neurological dysfunction, reproductive toxicity, and etc. Biomonitoring of hippuric acid (HA) is used for a long time as an occupational exposure index to toluene. The aim of this study was to explore efficiency of HA as a biomarker of exposur...

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Main Authors: ZAHRA NAGHAVI-KONJIN, MANSOUR REZAZADEH-AZARI, YASER SHEKOOHI, MITRA RAHIMZADEH, MIRDAVOUD SEYEDI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal of Occupational Hygiene
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Online Access:https://ijoh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijoh/article/view/80