Chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes from native Andean women and children from Northwestern Argentina exposed to arsenic in drinking water

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology

Volumn 370, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 151-158

  Dulout, Fernando N ^a   Grillo, Claudia A ^a   Seoane, Analía I ^a   Maderna, Carlos R ^a   Nilsson, Robert ^b   Vahter, Marie ^c   Darroudi, Firouz ^d   Natarajan, Adayapalam T ^d  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TRISOMY;

EID: 0030273349     PISSN: 01651218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1218(96)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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