Validity of mutagenic activity as an indicator of river water pollution

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 133-138

  Tsukatani, Hiroko ^a   Tanaka, Y ^a   Sera, N ^a   Shimizu, N ^a   Kitamori, S ^a   Inoue, N ^b  

^a FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ames test; Mutagenicity; River water; Sewage; YG strains

Indexed keywords

RIVER WATER;

ADSORPTION; AMES TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEWAGE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0141867688     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.8.133     Document Type: Article

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