Novel plant bioassays for monitoring the genotoxicity of drinking water from the inhabited areas of the Ukraine affected by the chernobyl accident

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 847-853

  Kovalchuk, O ^a,c   Telyuk, P ^a   Kovalchuk, L ^a   Kovalchuk, I ^a   Titov, V ^b  

^a IVANO FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b VASYL STEFANYK PRECARPATHIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; DRINKING WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ONION; PH; PLANT; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UKRAINE; WATER SAMPLING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; GLUCURONIDASE; HUMANS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UKRAINE; WATER SUPPLY;

ALLIUM CEPA; ARABIDOPSIS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0037407647     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-003-0060-y     Document Type: Article

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