Statistical evaluation and comparison of comet assay results

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 534, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 85-92

  Ejchart, Anna ^a   Sadlej Sosnowska, Nina ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bleomycin; Comet assay; DNA damage; Statistics; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DNA DAMAGE; EVALUATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLEOMYCIN; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0037427880     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(02)00250-4     Document Type: Article

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