Genotoxicity and toxicity assay of water sampled from a radium production industry storage cell territory by means of Allium-test

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-248

  Evseeva, Tatiana I ^a   Geras'kin, Stanislav A ^b   Shuktomova, Ida I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Allium test; Genotoxicity; Heavy metals; Heavy natural radionuclides; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOMES; COMPOSITION; HEAVY IONS; HEAVY METALS; RADIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GENOTOXICITY;

TOXICITY;

HEAVY METAL; LEAD; POLONIUM; RADIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZINC;

BIOMONITORING; METALS INDUSTRY; POLLUTION MONITORING; TOXICITY; URANIUM ISOTOPE; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHIVE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; SPECTROSCOPY; TELOPHASE; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER SAMPLING;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM SCHOENOPRASUM;

EID: 0038054457     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(03)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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