DNA damage and repair measurements from cryopreserved lymphocytes without cell culture - A reproducible assay for intervention studies

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 503-508

  Chang, Jyh Lurn ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Lampe, Johanna W ^a   Ulrich, Cornelia M ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Comet assay; DNA repair; Epidemiology; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMET ASSAY; COVARIANCE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE PRESERVATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COMET ASSAY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LYMPHOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33747874803     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20219     Document Type: Article

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