Effects of chronic long-term therapy with calcium antagonists on cytogenetic damage in humans

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 843-846

  Andreassi, Maria G ^a,b   Picano, Eugenio ^a   Del Ry, Silvia ^a   Petrozzi, Lucia ^a   Giannessi, Daniela ^a   Varga, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcium antagonists; Cancer risk; Chromosome aberrations; Genotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METAPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033033534     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-199917060-00017     Document Type: Article

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