The response of germ cells to ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, propylene imine and methyl methanesulfonate is a matter of cell stage-related DNA repair

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 124-135

  Vogel, Ekkehart W ^a,b   Nivard, Madeleine J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alkylation; Drosophila; Germ cells; Mutation; Repair

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; PROPYLENE OXIDE;

ALKYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; EXCISION REPAIR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; SPERMATOZOON; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; AZIRIDINES; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; ETHYLENE OXIDE; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; GERM-LINE MUTATION; MALE; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MICE; MUTAGENS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030887383     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1997)29:2<124::AID-EM3>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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