Effects in the comet assay of storage conditions on human blood

Teratogenesis Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 115-125

  Anderson, Diana ^a,c   Yu, Tian Wei ^a   Dobrzyńska, Malgorzata M ^a   Ribas, Gloria ^b   Marcos, Ricardo ^b  

^a BlBRA International ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4 C; Comet assay; Human lymphocytes; Room temperature; Storage conditions

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOGEN; DNA; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD STORAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DNA INTERACTION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLEOMYCIN; BLOOD PRESERVATION; COLD; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; HUMANS;

EID: 0031408150     PISSN: 02703211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6866(1997)17:3<115::AID-TCM3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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