A 3 milliTesla 60 Hz magnetic field is neither mutagenic nor co-mutagenic in the presence of menadione and MNU in a transgenic rat cell line

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 372, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-31

  Suri, Andrew ^a   DeBoer, Johan ^a   Kusser, Wolfgang ^a   Glickman, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; MENADIONE; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL LINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EMBRYO; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; HEMOSTATICS; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSGENES; VITAMIN K;

EID: 0030580232     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(96)00105-4     Document Type: Article

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