Diversity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells as revealed by a novel multiple microgel 'comet assay'

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-39

  Visvardis, E E ^a   Haveles, K S ^a   Pataryas, T A ^b   Margaritis, L H ^b   Sophianopoulou, V ^a   Sideris, E G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Ionizing radiation; Lymphocytes; Notl; PFGE; SYBR Gold

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; COBALT 60; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MUTAGEN TESTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TECHNIQUE;

CHROMATIN; COMET ASSAY; CPG ISLANDS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE;

EID: 0033868497     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2280(2000)36:1<32::AID-EM5>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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