Micronuclei in cord blood lymphocytes as a biomarker of transplacental exposure to environmental pollutants

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 231-239

  Milošević Djordjevic, Olivera ^a   Grujičić, Darko ^a   Arsenijević, Slobodan ^b   Brkić, Marija ^b   Ugrinović, Sladjana ^b   Marinković, Dragoslav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b Clinic of Gynecology   (Serbia)

^c SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Environmental pollution; Lymphocytes; Micronuclei; Newborns

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 37149030379     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.213.231     Document Type: Article

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