Effect of smoking habit on the frequency of micronuclei in human lymphocytes: Results from the Human MicroNucleus project

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 543, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-166

  Bonassi, Stefano ^a   Neri, Monica ^a   Lando, Cecilia ^a   Ceppi, Marcello ^a   Lin, Yi Ping ^b   Chang, Wushou P ^b   Holland, Nina ^c   Kirsch Volders, Micheline ^d   Zeiger, Errol ^e   Fenech, Michael ^f   Ban, Sadayuki ^g   Barale, Roberto ^g   Bigatti, Maria Paola ^g   Bolognesi, Claudia ^g   Jia, Cao ^g   Di Giorgio, Marina ^g   Ferguson, Lynnette R ^g   Fucic, Aleksandra ^g   Hrelia, Patrizia ^g   Krishnaja, Ayyathan P ^g   Lee, Tung Kwang ^g   Migliore, Lucia ^g   Mikhalevich, Ludmilla ^g   Mirkova, Ekaterina ^g   Mosesso, Pasquale ^g   Müller, Wolfgang Ulrich ^g   Odagiri, Youichi ^g   Scarfi, Maria Rosaria ^g   Szabova, Elena ^g   Vorobtsova, Irena ^g   Vral, Anne ^g   Zijno, Andrea ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e Errol Zeiger Consulting   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Human lymphocytes; Micronuclei; Pooled analysis; Smoking habit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENOTOXICITY; HABIT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0037339166     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(03)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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