SCE analysis in G2 lymphocyte prematurely condensed chromosomes after exposure to atrazine: The non-dose-dependent increase in homologous recombinational events does not support its genotoxic mode of action

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 315-319

  Malik, S I ^a   Terzoudi, G I ^a   Pantelias, G E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE;

CARCINOGENICITY; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ADULT; ATRAZINE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; G2 PHASE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; METAPHASE; MITOMYCIN; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 2642545652     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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