Application of the comet test in occupational medicine and industrial toxicology: Considerations and perspectives;Impiego del comet test in medicina del lavoro e tossicologia industrielle: Considerazioni e prospettive

Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-13

  Grandi, C ^a   D'Ovidio, M C ^a   Tomao, Paola ^a  

^a ISPESL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comet test; Genotoxicity; Human biomonitoring; SCGE

Indexed keywords

ANEUGEN; INDUSTRIAL TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMET ASSAY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIET; DNA ADDUCT; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA REPAIR; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUTH CAVITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; TOXICITY TESTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANEUGENS; COMET ASSAY; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 33646690992     PISSN: 15927830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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