Assessment of the genotoxicity of imidacloprid and metalaxyl in cultured human lymphocytes and rat bone-marrow

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 634, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 32-39

  Demsia, Georgia ^a   Vlastos, Dimitris ^a   Goumenou, Marina ^b   Matthopoulos, Demetrios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b General Chemical State Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; Human lymphocytes; Micronucleus (MN) test; Pesticides; Rat bone marrow; Sister chromatid exchange (SCE)

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID; METALAXYL; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYCHROMATIC ERYTHROCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; RATS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

RATTUS;

EID: 35448978209     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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