Dietary folate deficiency enhances induction of micronuclei by arsenic in mice

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 71-77

  McDorman, Elena W ^a   Collins, Barbara W ^b   Allen, James W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Diet; Folate deficiency; Genotoxicity; Micronuclei; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CLASTOGEN; FOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EVALUATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOTOXICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; DIET; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MUTAGENS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036323453     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.10085     Document Type: Article

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