Induction of micronuclei by low doses of azidothymidine (AZT)

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology

Volumn 368, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 301-307

  Dertinger, Stephen D ^a   Torous, Dorothea K ^a   Tometsko, Kenneth R ^a  

^a LITRON LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); Azidothymidine (AZT); Clastogenicity; Flow cytometry; Micronucleus; Zidovudine

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030570540     PISSN: 01651218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1218(96)90072-5     Document Type: Article

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