Long-term irradiation of a marine fish, the plaice Pleuronectes platessa: An assessment of the effects on size and composition of the testes and of possible genotoxic changes in peripheral erythrocytes

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 773-782

  Knowles, J F ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FLATFISHES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA;

EID: 0032997655     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095530099140122     Document Type: Article

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