Lack of genotoxicity of carbon nanotubes in a pilot study

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1 A, 2008, Pages 349-352

  Szendi, Katalin ^a   Varga, Csaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cytogenetics; Genotoxicity; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Salmonella ames test; Single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

AMES TEST; ARTICLE; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PILOT PROJECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 40549104112     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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