Mutagenicity of ground water (in the bore-holes) in Ararat Valley (Armenia) detected by Trad-SHM bioassay

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 518, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-153

  Pogosyan, Violetta S ^a   Aghajanyan, Evelina A ^a   Atoyants, Anahit L ^a  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Ground water; Mutagenicity; Tradescantia stamen hair mutation assay

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; SODIUM ION; FRESH WATER; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ARMENIA; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLONE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRADESCANTIA; TRADESCANTIA STAMEN HAIR MUTATION TEST; WATER SAMPLING; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

TRADESCANTIA;

ARMENIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33846351566     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(02)00102-X     Document Type: Article

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