Monitoring of lymphocyte micronuclei among newborns from Kragujevac in Central Serbia before and after environmental contamination

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Milosevic Djordjevic, Olivera ^a   Grujicic, Darko ^a   Arsenijević, Slobodan ^a   Marinković, Dragoslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Environmental contamination; Micronuclei; Newborns; Peripheral blood lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGEN TESTING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MONITORING; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; POLLUTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 14244254392     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.205.1     Document Type: Article

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