Mutagenicity of ethyl carbamate to lacZ- transgenic mice

Mutagenesis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-137

  Williams, C V ^a   Fletcher, K ^a   Tinwell, H ^a   Ashby, J ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; CARCINOGENS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LAC OPERON; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; SPLEEN; URETHANE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031883964     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/13.2.133     Document Type: Article

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