In situ monitoring of the ambient air around the chloroprene rubber industrial plant using the Tradescantia-stamen-hair mutation assay

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 426, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-120

  Arutyunyan, Rouben M ^a   Pogosyan, Violetta S ^a   Simonyan, Elena H ^a   Atoyants, Anahit L ^a   Djigardjian, Emma M ^a  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; In situ monitoring; Rubber plant; Stamen hair mutation; Tradescantia

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPRENE; RUBBER;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; BIOASSAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTOXICITY; MUTATION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; TRADESCANTIA;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ARMENIA; CHLOROPRENE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PLANTS; RUBBER; TIME FACTORS;

TRADESCANTIA;

EID: 0032938568     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00052-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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