GFP assay as a sensitive eukaryotic screening model to detect toxic and genotoxic activity of azaarenes

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-348

  Bartos T ^a   Letzsch, S ^b   Skarek M ^a   Flegrova Z ^a   Cupr P ^a   Holoubek, I ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azaarenes; Genotoxicity; GFP yeast bioassay; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AZAARENES; GENOTOXICITY; GFP YEAST BIOASSAY;

BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; TOXICITY; YEAST;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; 4,7 PHENANTHROLINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; PHENANTHRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHROLINE DERIVATIVE; PHENAZINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENOTOXICITY; PAH; POLLUTANT; TESTING METHOD; YEAST;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EUKARYOTE; GENOTOXICITY; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SOS CHROMOTEST; TOXI CHROMOTEST;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; SACCHAROMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33746720149     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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