Influence of cytotoxicity and compound precipitation on test results in the alkaline comet assay

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 497, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 199-212

  Hartmann, Andreas ^a   Kiskinis, Evangelos ^a   Fjällman, Ann ^a   Suter, Willi ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alkaline comet assay; Compound precipitation; Cytotoxicity

Indexed keywords

NEW DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN V 79; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; CRICETINAE; DNA; MUTAGENS; PRECIPITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035909496     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(01)00256-X     Document Type: Article

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