The effect of the interval between dose applications on the observed specific-locus mutation rate in the mouse following fractionated treatments of spermatogonia with ethylnitrosourea

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-199

  Favor, Jack ^a   Neuhäuser Klaus, Angelika ^a   Ehling, Udo H ^a   Wulff, Andrea ^a   Van Zeeland, Albert A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethylnitrosourea; Fractionated dose application; Fractionation interval; In vivo; Mouse; Specific locus mutation test; Spermatogonia; Threshold dose response

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; DOSE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM;

ANIMALS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0343247805     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(96)00229-1     Document Type: Article

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