Semicarbazide is not genotoxic in the flow cytometry-based micronucleus assay in vivo

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-217

  Abramsson Zetterberg, Lilianne ^a   Svensson, Kettil ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aneugenic; Chromosome aberration; Micronucleus test; Semicarbazide

Indexed keywords

SEMICARBAZIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; SEMICARBAZIDES;

EID: 10444256210     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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