Analysis of chromosome segregation in cytokinesis-blocked human lymphocytes: Non-disjunction is the prevalent damage resulting from low dose exposure to spindle poisons

Mutagenesis

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 335-340

  Zijno, Andrea ^a   Marcon, Francesca ^a   Leopardi, Paola ^a   Crebelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYTOCHALASIN B; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONDISJUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; COLCHICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTAGENS; VINBLASTINE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030054638     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/11.4.335     Document Type: Article

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