Chromosome aberration assays in Pisum for the study of environmental mutagens

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 488, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 93-118

  Grant, William F ^a   Owens, Elizabeth T ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Toxicol Risk Anal Sect Life S   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimitotic effects; c Mitosis; Chromosome aberrations; Fabaceae; Nuclear DNA amounts; Pisum fulvum; Pisum sativum; Plant bioassay; Somatic mutations; Vicieae

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE; ACRIDINE DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; ALKALOID; AMINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; AZO COMPOUND; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; CLASTOGEN; DIOXIN; ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN; EPOXIDE; HALIDE; HALOGEN; HYDRAZIDE DERIVATIVE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOLEAD COMPOUND; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SULFATE; SULFOXIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; CARCINOGENICITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; GARLIC; KARYOTYPE; LITERATURE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CARCINOGENS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FABACEAE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PEAS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLOIDIES;

ALLIUM; FABACEAE; PISUM; PISUM FULVUM; PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM; VICIEAE;

EID: 0035005184     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(00)00064-8     Document Type: Review

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