Evaluation of the new system (umu-test) for the detection of environmental mutagens and carcinogens

Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1985, Pages 219-229

  Oda, Yoshimitsu ^a   Nakamura, Sei ichi ^a   Oki, Iwashiro ^a   Kato, Takesi ^b   Shinagawa, Hideo ^c  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGEN TESTING; OPERON; RAT; ETIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEREDITY; HYBRID GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMAL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MALE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; OPERON; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0021891433     PISSN: 01651161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1161(85)90062-7     Document Type: Article

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