Mutagenic activity of airborne particulate matter as an indicative measure of atmospheric pollution

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 540, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 67-77

  Ducatti, Adriana ^a   Vargas, Vera Maria Ferrão ^a  

^a Fundacao Estadual de Protecao Ambiental Henrique Luis Roessler   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Airborne particulate matter; Mutagenicity; Nitrocompounds; Salmonella microsome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMES TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; EXTRACTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MUTAGENICITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; ULTRASOUND;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0041779408     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(03)00170-0     Document Type: Article

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