TY - JOUR ID - 5682 TI - DNA-damage in blood of welders occupationally exposed to welding fume using comet assay JO - Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences JA - CJES LA - en SN - 1735-3033 AU - Atiya, Luqman Rhaif AU - Abdulhay, Hind Suhail AD - Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Iraq Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 20 IS - 3 SP - 513 EP - 517 KW - Comet assay KW - Welders KW - DNA-damage DO - 10.22124/cjes.2022.5682 N2 - Welding workers exposed to various risks resulting in different harms, hazard health effects, and even, sometimes, death. Moreover, air pollution that results from welding operation leads to consequent human hurts. Therefore, this study comes to investigate the potential DNA damage as an indicator of health problems in welding workers. In this study, blood samples of forty welders and twenty non-welders were collected, and Oxiselect comet assay kit was used. The results showed that there were a significant change in low, and high comet percentage of control compared to welders, while there was no significant difference in medium comet percentage between control and welders. UR - https://cjes.guilan.ac.ir/article_5682.html L1 - https://cjes.guilan.ac.ir/article_5682_9a02b0c44484c7f982368e15e16eb1cc.pdf ER -