Acid and osmotic erythrocyte resistance in workers at a petroleum factory
Shakirov, D.F.; Samsonov, V.M.; Kudriavtsev, V.P.; Gil'manov, A.Z.
Klinicheskaia Laboratornaia Diagnostika 7: 21-23
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-2084 PMID: 12934328 Document Number: 553695
Data on the impact exerted by industrial products, i.e. pyromellitic dianhydride, on the acidic and osmotic resistance of erythrocytes in workers are described. The influence of hazardous factors of the oil-and-chemical production was found to result in a changing erythrocytes' resistance (of workers) to the osmotic and acidic hemolytics with regard for a labor record and duration of contact with toxicants. The shifts in acidic and osmotic resistance can serve as an early marker of changes in the functional erythron's status in workers occupied under hazardous industrial factors.