Incidence of micronuclei in pregnant women and cord blood samples before and after the bombing of Serbia

Archive of Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 200-202

  Stanković, Miroslava ^a   Joksić, Gordana ^a   Guc Scekic, Marija ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Mother and Child Health Institute   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Fetal Blood; Lymphocytes; Micronuclei; Pregnancy; Radiation Effects; War; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINESIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICRONUCLEUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 11844288958     PISSN: 03547310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/AOO0404200S     Document Type: Article

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