Simple and reliable enumeration of micronucleated reticulocytes with a single-laser flow cytometer

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology

Volumn 371, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 283-292

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

^a LITRON LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti transferrin receptor; Automated analysis; CD71 antigen; Clastogenicity; Flow cytometry; Genotoxicity testing; Micronucleus

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE;

EID: 0030595997     PISSN: 01651218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1218(96)90117-2     Document Type: Article

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