Comet assay in human biomonitoring studies: Reliability, validation, and applications

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-146

  Collins, Andrew ^a   Dušinská, Maria ^b   Franklin, Michael ^a   Somorovská, Martina ^b   Petrovská, Helena ^b   Duthie, Susan ^a   Fillion, Laurence ^a   Panayiotidis, Mihalis ^c   Rašlová, Katarína ^b   Vaughan, Nicholas ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Diabetes; DNA damage; DNA repair; Human biomonitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MUTAGEN TESTING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIOXIDANTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE (PYRIMIDINE DIMER); DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPHOCYTES; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 1842301688     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1997)30:2<139::AID-EM6>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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