A comparison of the genotoxicity of ethylnitrosourea and ethyl methanesulfonate in lacZ transgenic mice (Muta(TM)Mouse)

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 395, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-82

  Suzuki, Takayoshi ^a   Hayashi, Makoto ^a   Wang, Xue ^b   Yamamoto, Kazuo ^b   Ono, Tetsuya ^c   Myhr, Brian C ^d   Sofuni, Toshio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethyl methanesulfonate; Ethylnitrosourea; lacZ mutation; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BONE MARROW; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031555314     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(97)00144-7     Document Type: Article

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