S-phenylcysteine adduct concentration in serum albumin of countryside residents and factory workers in Estonia

Human Biomonitoring in the Oil Shale Industry Area in Estonia—Overview of Earlier Programmes and Future Perspectives

“…The later analysis of effect biomarkers did not indicate an increase in the number of micronuclei in buccal cells (36) or increased cancerspecific ras (p21) proteins in plasma (37). A subsequent study of chromosomal aberrations did not show significant differences between the serum albumin levels of the controls from nearby countryside residents and the people working at the Kohtla-Järve chemical plant; nevertheless, the levels of S-phenylcysteine adducts were considered relatively high in both groups (38). >2 times of "limit value," 3 1-2 times of "limit value," 2 ½−1 times of "limit value," 1 ½-¼ times of "limit value," 0 <¼ times of "limit value," _ 0,1,2 no exact value provided, only compared with "limit value".…”