Document ID (ISN) | 41515 |
CIS number |
84-510 |
ISSN - Serial title |
0019-8366 - Industrial Health |
Year |
1982 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Pines A. |
Title |
Blood electrolysis levels in long-term occupational exposure to carbon disulphide |
Bibliographic information |
1982, Vol.20, No.4, p.325-333. Illus. 20 ref. |
Abstract |
The effects of ≤25 years exposure to low air concentrations of carbon disulfide (CS2) were examined in a group of 95 workers in a viscose rayon plant. Workers exposed for ≤5 years had increases in plasma sodium and chlorine levels and decreases in erythrocyte potassium and calcium levels as well as decreases in the calcium transmembrane gradient, the calcium/magnesium ratio in both blood compartments and in the calcium/phosphorus ratio in erythrocytes. Exposure for >10 years caused a slight increase in plasma potassium and a decrease in plasma calcium and in the sodium transmembrane gradient and an increase in the potassium/calcium plasma ratio. Workers with 6-10 years exposure showed effects falling between these two. Because of excessive individual variability in blood electrolyte values they cannot be recommended as laboratory signs of chronic CS2 effects. |
Descriptors (primary) |
viscose rayon industry; biological effects; carbon disulfide |
Descriptors (secondary) |
serum electrolyte changes; blood monitoring; exposure tests; long-term exposure |
Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Inorganic sulfur compounds Inorganic substances
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