Table 1.
The number of references retrieved from different databases for the search between 2011 and 2017 using specific combinations of search items relating to genotoxicity
| Search item/Database Quartz or crystalline silica + |
PubMed | ToxLine | CCRIS | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| genotoxicity | 18 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
| mutation | 32 | 58 | 0 | 90 |
| chromosome | 11 | 13 | 0 | 24 |
| Micronucleus | 10 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| DNA repair | 2 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| Comet | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Total (after exclusion of double hits) | 59 | 81 | 1 | 141 |
| Inflammation OR fibrosis OR toxicity | 413 | 220 | 0 | 633 |
| Surface | 2929 | 392 | 0 | 3321 |