Sulphur mustard induced morphological changes in mice and human blood cells

Biomedical Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 212, 1996, Pages 201-209

  Chauhan, R S ^a,b   Sugendran, K ^a   Murthy, L V R ^a   Ramana, K V ^a   Dasgupta, S ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT   (India)

^b Def R and D Establishment   (India)

Author keywords

Alkylating agent; Blood cells; Scanning electron microscopy; SDS PAGE; Sulphur mustard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040749828     PISSN: 0961088X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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