Evaluation of DNA damage in a population of bats (Chiroptera) residing in an abandoned monazite mine

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 557, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-190

  Meehan, Kathleen A ^a   Truter, Ernest J ^a   Slabbert, Jacobus P ^b   Parker, M Iqbal ^c  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodosimetry; Chiroptera; Clastogenecity; Comet; Ionising radiation; Micronucleus

Indexed keywords

CLASTOGEN; MONAZITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CELL NUCLEUS; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; EVALUATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MINING; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RETICULOCYTE; SAMPLING;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 0347946746     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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