Effect of the topoisomerase-II inhibitor etoposide on meiotic recombination in male mice

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 464, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 201-212

  Russell, Liane B ^a   Hunsicker, Patricia R ^a   Hack, Adelle M ^b   Ashley, Terry ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Etoposide; Germ cell stages; Meiosis; Recombination; Spermatocytes; Topoisomerase II

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); ETOPOSIDE; GYRASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; CYTOLOGY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION PROTEIN A; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS;

EID: 0033964492     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00185-0     Document Type: Article

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