Genotoxicity of field-collected inter-tidal sediments from Cork Harbor, Ireland, to juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) as measured by the comet assay

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-64

  Kilemade, M F ^a   Hartl, M G J ^a   Sheehan, D ^a   Mothersill, C ^a,b   Van Pelt, F N A M ^a   O'Halloran, J ^a   O'Brien, N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Comet assay; DNA damage; Field collected sediment; Genotoxicity; Turbot

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMET ASSAY; CONTAMINATION; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDERMIS; FLATFISHES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GILLS; IRELAND; LIVER; METALS, HEAVY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SEAWATER; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

SCOPHTHALMUS; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS;

EID: 3342963570     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20028     Document Type: Article

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