Morphology of cell injury: An approach to the EDIT programme by the use of tobacco pollen tubes

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-329

  Kristen, Udo ^a   Bischoff, Natalie ^a   Lisboa, Saskia ^a   Schirmer, Enno ^a   Witt, Sören ^a   Quader, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell injury; Cell malformation; Cytotoxicity; EDIT programme; MEIC programme; Pollen germination; Pollen tube growth; PTG test

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALCIUM; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE; TUBULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL DAMAGE; CELL GROWTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXICITY; GROWTH DISORDER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TOBACCO; TOXICITY TESTING;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0036325909     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290203000310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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