Nutritional folate deficiency augments the in vivo mutagenic and lymphocytotoxic activities of alkylating agents

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-38

  Branda, Richard F ^a,b   Hacker, Miles ^a,b   Lafayette, Amy ^a   Nigels, Elizabeth ^a   Sullivan, Linda ^a   Nicklas, Janice A ^a   Patrick O'Neill, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkylating agent; Folic acid; HPRT; Immunosuppression; Lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC DAMAGE; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOMATIC MUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MALE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031902247     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1998)32:1<33::AID-EM4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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