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Document ID (ISN)41515
CIS number 84-510
ISSN - Serial title 0019-8366 - Industrial Health
Year 1982
Convention or series no.
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
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Inorganic sulfur compounds
Inorganic substances