Flavonoids modulate Comet assay responses to food mutagens in human lymphocytes and sperm

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 402, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 269-277

  Anderson, D ^a   Dobrzynska M M ^b   Basaran N ^c   Basaran A ^c   Yu, T W ^a  

^a BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Flavonoid; Food mutagen; Human lymphocyte; Human sperm

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLIMIDAZO[4,5 F]QUINOLINE; 3 AMINO 1 METHYL 5H PYRIDO[4,3 B]INDOLE; FLAVONOID; KAEMPFEROL; MUTAGENIC AGENT; MYRICETIN; NICOTIFLORIN; QUERCETIN; RUTOSIDE; SILYMARIN;

CELL PROTECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM;

ADULT; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; CARBOLINES; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; QUINOLINES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032543377     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(97)00306-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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