Alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis and human biomonitoring for genotoxicity: a study on subjects with residential exposure to radon

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-132

  Hellman, Björn ^a,b   Friis, Lennart ^a   Vaghef, Hamid ^a,b   Edling, Christer ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis; Biomonitoring for genotoxicity; Comet assay; DNA strand break; Low dose ionising radiation; Peripheral lymphocyte; Residential radon exposure

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; RADON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0032968102     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00083-2     Document Type: Article

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