Treatment and sampling protocols for transgenic mutation assays

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Heddle, John A ^a   Martus, Hans Joerg ^b   Douglas, George R ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c Environmental Health Centre Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expression; Fixation; Manifestation; Neutral; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTANT; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; MICE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0037255626     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.10131     Document Type: Article

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