The plant ribosome inactivating protein saporin induces micronucleus formation in peripheral human lymphocytes in vitro

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-73

  Poma, A ^a   Zarivi, O ^a   Bianchini, S ^a   Spano L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Micronucleus formation; Ribosome inactivating proteins; Saporin

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN; SAPORIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOTOXINS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RIBOSOMES; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 0032996228     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00384-1     Document Type: Article

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