In situ monitoring of clastogenicity of ambient air in Bratislava, Slovakia using the Tradescantia micronucleus assay and pollen abortion assays

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 605, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Mišík, Miroslav ^a   Solenská, Martina ^a   Mičieta, Karol ^a   Mišíková, Katarína ^a   Knasmüller, Siegfried ^b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bratislava; In situ monitoring; Pollen abortion assay; Pollution; Tradescantia MN assay

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; AIR POLLUTANT; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHICORY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CITY; EXHAUST GAS; FERTILIZATION; GENOTOXICITY; GLASS INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRADESCANTIA; TRAFFIC; AIR POLLUTANT; BIOASSAY; CLEMATIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LINARIA; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; POLLEN; SEASON; SLOVAKIA; SYNTHESIS; TOXICITY;

CICHORIUM INTYBUS; CLEMATIS VITALBA; LINARIA VULGARIS; TRADESCANTIA; TRADESCANTIA PALUDOSA;

AGROCHEMICALS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHICORY; CLEMATIS; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LINARIA; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; POLLEN; SEASONS; SLOVAKIA; TRADESCANTIA;

EID: 33646758909     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2005.12.009     Document Type: Article

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