Influence of serum micronutrients on the incidence of kinetochore-positive or -negative micronuclei in human peripheral blood lymphocytes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 415, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 35-45

  Odagiri, Youichi ^a   Uchida, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a Yamanashi College of Nursing   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human lymphocyte; Micronucleus; Serum micronutrient

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KINETOCHORES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0031819173     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(98)00051-5     Document Type: Article

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