Risk assessment in first degree female relatives of breast cancer patients using the alkaline Comet assay

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 557-561

  Rajeswari, N ^a   Ahuja, Y R ^a   Malini, U ^b   Chandrashekar, S ^c   Balakrishna, N ^d   Rao, K V ^d   Khar, Ashok ^e  

^a Bhagwan Mahavir Medical Research Centre   (India)

^b LSU Rice Research Station   (United States)

^c Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^e CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGENESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE;

EID: 0034007114     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/21.4.557     Document Type: Article

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