Responses of alveolar macrophages and epithelial type II cells to oxidative DNA damage caused by paraquat

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 809-812

  Dušinská, Mária ^a   Kovačiková, Zuzana ^a   Vallová, Bibiana ^a   Collins, Andrew ^b  

^a INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HERBICIDES; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARAQUAT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031845839     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.5.809     Document Type: Article

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