A staining procedure for micronucleus test using new methylene blue and acridine orange: Specimens that are supravitally stained with possible long- term storage

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 470, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-108

  Sugihara, Tadakazu ^a   Sawada, Shigeki ^b   Hakura, Atsushi ^b   Hori, Yuji ^a   Uchida, Kanako ^b   Sagami, Fumio ^b  

^a 2 1 T   (Japan)

^b Ltd 1 Takehaya machi K ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Long term storage; Micronucleus test; New methylene blue acridine orange staining procedure; Reticulocyte

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; METHYLENE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULOCYTE; STAINING; STORAGE;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMAL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DYES; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0034739690     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(00)00044-2     Document Type: Article

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