Enumeration of micronucleated reticulocytes in rat peripheral blood: A flow cytometric study

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 465, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 91-99

  Torous, Dorothea K ^a   Dertinger, Stephen D ^b   Hall, Nikki E ^a   Tometsko, Carol R ^a  

^a LITRON LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

CD71 antigen; Clastogen; Flow cytometry; Genotoxicity testing; Micronuclei; Rat peripheral blood

Indexed keywords

MERCAPTOPURINE; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; PROPANESULTONE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; RETICULOCYTE; STAINING; TECHNIQUE;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ANIMALS; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULOCYTES; THIOPHENES;

EID: 0034673206     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00216-8     Document Type: Article

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