Mutagenic activity of airborne particulate matter from the urban area of Porto Alegre, Brazil

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-253

  Vargas, Vera Maria Ferrão ^a   Horn, Rubem Cesar ^a   Guidobono, Régis Rolim ^a   Mittelstaedt, Ana Beatriz ^a   De Azevedo, Irascema Girardi ^a  

^a Fundacao Estadual de Protecao Ambiental Henrique Luis Roessler   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; NITRO DERIVATIVE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMES TEST; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FRACTIONATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; ULTRASOUND; URBAN AREA;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031662501     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47571998000200013     Document Type: Article

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