Toward an understanding of the use of transgenic mice for the detection of gene mutations in germ cells

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 388, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 197-212

  Douglas, George R ^a   Gingerich, John D ^a   Soper, Lynda M ^a   Jiao, Jianli ^a  

^a Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030981206     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(96)00117-9     Document Type: Article

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