Evaluation of the rat bone marrow and peripheral blood micronucleus test using monocrotaline

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 392, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 243-249

  Proudlock, Raymond J ^a   Statham, Joanne ^a   Howard, Wayne ^a  

^a Huntingdon Life Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood; Bone marrow; Micronucleus; Monocrotaline; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; CLASTOGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; MONOCROTALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEULGEN STAINING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMALS; AZURE STAINS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELLS; COLORING AGENTS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROCYTES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MONOCROTALINE; MUTAGENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROSANILINE DYES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030878765     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(97)00077-6     Document Type: Article

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