The use of premature chromosome condensation to study the influence of environmental factors on human genetic material in interphase cells

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 1174-1190

  Hatzi, Vasiliki I ^a   Terzoudi, Georgia I ^a   Paraskevopoulou, Christina ^a   Makropoulos, Vasilios ^b   Matthopoulos, Demetrios P ^c   Pantelias, Gabriel E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND RADIATION PROTECTION   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health and Safety   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Calyculin A; Cell cycle delay; Cell fusion; Chemicals; Chromosomal damage; Chromosome aberrations; DNA damage; Genotoxicity; Ionizing radiation; Lymphocytes; Premature chromosome condensation; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; BLEOMYCIN; CALYCULIN A; CARMUSTINE; DOXORUBICIN; HYDROQUINONE; LOMUSTINE; MITOMYCIN; OKADAIC ACID; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; TENIPOSIDE; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; ZINOSTATIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL FUSION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL GENETICS; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; INTERPHASE; IONIZING RADIATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICROSCOPY; MUTAGENESIS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SMOKING; TOXICOGENETICS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34548017603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2006.210     Document Type: Review

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