Positive responses to carcinogens in the yeast DEL recombination assay are not due to selection of preexisting spontaneous revertants

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 421, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-120

  Brennan, Richard J ^a   Schiestl, Robert H ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogen; Revertant cell; Yeast DEL recombination assay

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; DICHLOROMETHANE; THIOACETAMIDE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; SHORT SURVEY; YEAST;

EID: 0032511833     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(98)00168-7     Document Type: Article

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