A procedure to study unscheduled DNA synthesis in rat spermatogenic cells in vivo: Strain differences between Fisher-344 and Sprague-Dawley rats

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-81

  Sotomayor, Rene E ^a   Jackson, Randolph ^a   Nourbakhsh, Agnes ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher 344 rats; Spermatogenic cells; Sprague Dawley rats; Strain differences; UDS assay

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNSCHEDULED DNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; MALE; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0029905759     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(96)03792-7     Document Type: Article

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