Antimutagenicity of a suberin extract from Quercus suber cork

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 446, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 225-230

  Križková, Lívia ^a   Lopes, Marta H ^b   Polónyi, Jozef ^a   Belicová, Anna ^a   Dobias, Jozef ^a   Ebringer, Libor ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acridine orange; Antimutagenicity; Euglena gracilis; Ofloxacin; Suberin

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; OFLOXACIN; PLANT EXTRACT; SUBERIN;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INTERACTION; EUGLENA GRACILIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMALS; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; OFLOXACIN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SUPEROXIDES; TREES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 0345148950     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00190-4     Document Type: Article

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