Advanced search
Publication Cover
Biomarkers Volume 8, 2003 - Issue 2
Submit an article Journal homepage
78
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Determination of urinary hippuric acid and o-cresol levels as biological indicators of toluene exposure in shoe-workers and glue sniffers

Ismet Çok Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology Gazi University 06330 Hipodrom Ankara
,
Ayfer Dagdelen Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology Gazi University 06330 Hipodrom Ankara
&
Esin Gökçe Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology Gazi University 06330 Hipodrom Ankara
Pages 119-127 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

  • ACGIH. 2000, Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices (Cincinnati: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygieniste).
  • BURGAZ, S., COK. L, ULUSOY, L, TARHAN, U., AYGUN, N. and KARAKAYA. A E. 1997, Biological monitoring of n-hexane exposure in shoe workers. Biomarken, 2, 25-28.
  • CARLISLE, E. J. F, DONNELY, S. M., VASUVATTAKUL, S., KAMEL, K. S., TOBE, S. and HALPERIN, M. I. 1991, Glue sniffing and distal renal tubular acidosis: sticking to the teas. Journal of Ae American Society of Nephrology, 1, 1019-1027.
  • DEVATHASAN, G, Low, D, TEOH, P. C, WAN, S. H. and WONG, P. K. 1984, Complications of chronic glue (toluene) abuse in adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 14, 39-43.
  • DOSSING, M., BAELUM, J., HANSEN, S. H. and LUNDQVIST, G. R 1984, Effects of ethanol, cimetidine and propranolol on toluene metabolism in man. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 54, 309-315.
  • INOUE, O., SBUI, K, WATANABE, T, KASAHARA. M, NAKATSUKA, H., VIN, S., LE, G, CAI, S., JIN, C. and IKEDA, M 1986, Possible ethnic differences in toluene metabolism: a comparative study among Chinese, Turkish and Japanese solvent workers. Toxicology Letters, 34, 167-174.
  • INOUE, O., SEIJI, K., WATANABE, T, NAKATSUKA, H., JIN, C, LIU, S.-J. and IKEDA, M. 1993, Effects of smoking and drinking on excretion of hippuric acid among toluene-exposed workers. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 15, 103-110.
  • INOUE, O., SEIH, K., WATANABE, T, CHEN, Z., HUANG. M Y, Xu, X. P., QIAO. X. and IKEDA. M. 1994, Effects of smoking and drinking habits on urinary ortho-cresol excretion after occupational exposure to toluene vapor among Chinese workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 25, 697-708.
  • JANSEN, P., RICHTER, L M. and GRISEL, R D. 1992, Glue sniffing: a comparison study of sniffers and non-sniffers. Journal of Adolescence, 15, 29-37.
  • KIRA, S., OGATA, M, HORH, S., EBARA, Y, OTSUKI, S., KAWAI, T. and YASUGI, T. 1989, A case of thinner sniffing: Part 2. Urinary excretions of cresols and methanol after inhalation of toluene and methanol. Industrial Health, 27, 175-180.
  • LOF, A., HANSEN, S. H., NASLUND, P., STEINER, E., WALLEN, M and HJELM, E. W 1990, Relationship between uptake and elimination of toluene and debrisoquine hydoxylation polymorphism. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 47, 412-417.
  • MCGREGOR, D. 1994, The genetic toxicology of toluene. Mutation Research, 317, 213-228.
  • MEADOWS, R and VERGHESE, A 1996, Medical complications of glue sniffing. Southern Medical Journal, 89, 455-461.
  • MEVLENBELT, J., GROOT, G. D. and SAVELKOUL, T. J. F. 1990, Two cases of acute toluene intoxication. British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 47, 417-420.
  • MIYAZAKI, T., KOJIMA, T., YASHIKI, M, CHIKASUE, F. and TSUKUE, I. 1990, Correlation between On admission' blood toluene concentrations and the presence or absence of signs and symptoms in solvent abusers. Forensic Science International, 44, 169-177.
  • MURATA, K., ARAKI, S., VOKOYAMA, K., YAMASHTTA, K, OKAJIMA, F. and NAKAAKI, K. 1994, Changes in autonomie function as determined by ECGR-R internal variability in sandal, shoe and leather workers exposed to n-hexane, xylene and toluene. Neurotoxicology, 15, 867-876.
  • NAKAJIMA, T, WANG, R S. and MURAYAMA, N. 1993, Immunochemical assessment of the influence of nutritional, physiological and environmental factors on the metabolism of toluene. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 65, 127-130.
  • NISE, G. 1992, Urinary excretion of ortho-cresol and hippuric acid after toluene exposure in rotogravure printing. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 63, 377-381.
  • OGATA, M, SUGIYAMA. K and MORIYASU, H. 1962, Studies on poisoning. IV. Toluene concentration in air and urinary hippuric acid measured by paper chromatography and mass screening examination method. Aaa Medica Okayama, 16, 283-292.
  • OGATA, M, SUGIHARA, R and KIRA. S. 1978, Quantitative determination of urinary hippuric acid and m- or p-methylhippuric acid as indices of toluene and m- or p-xylene exposure by high performance liquid chromatography. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 39, 199-206.
  • PIERCE, C. H., CHEN, Y, DILLS, R L., KALMAN, D. A and MORGAN, M S. 2002, Toluene metabolites as biological indicators of exposure. Toxicology Letters, 129, 65-76.
  • PTTARQUE, M, VAGLENOV, A, NOSKO, M, HIRVONEN, A, NORPPA, H., CREUS, A and MARCOS, R 1999, Evaluation of DNA damage by the Comet assay in shoe workers exposed to toluene and other organic solvents. Mutation Research, 441, 115-127.
  • RMIKLIN-EISENKRAFT, B., HOFFER, E., BAUM, Y and BENTUR, Y 2001, Determination of urinary hippuric acid in toluene abuse. Clinical Toxicology, 39, 73-76.
  • SCARPELLI, A, MUJGI, L., COSTANTINI, A S. and MALTONI, S. A 1993, Exposure to solvents in the shoe and leather goods industries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 22, S46-S50.
  • STEFFEE, C H., DAVIS, G. J. and NICOL, K. K 1996, A whiff of death: fatal volatile solvent inhalation abuse. Southern Medical Journal, 89, 879-884.
  • US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. 1983, Health Assessment Document for Toluene. Report No. EPA-600/8-82-008F. Washington DC: Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office.
  • WATSON, J. M 1982, Solvent abuse: presentation and clinical diagnosis. Human Toxicology, 1, 249-256.
  • WATSON, J. M 1984, Solvent abuse and adolescents. The Practitioner, 228, 487-490.
  • YAMAZAKI, K., TANAKA. E. and MISAWA, S. 1992, Urinary ortho-cresol concentrations as an indicator of toluene inhalation in glue-sniffers. Journal of Forensic Science Society, 32, 215-223.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.