Noscapine hydrochloride disrupts the mitotic spindle in mammalian cells and induces aneuploidy as well as polyploidy in cultured human lymphocytes

Mutagenesis

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-56

  Schuler, M ^a   Muehlbauer, P ^b   Guzzie, P ^b   Eastmond, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; NOSCAPINE; OPIATE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DIPLOIDY; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAMMAL CELL; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0344959399     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/14.1.51     Document Type: Article

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