Ecotoxicological applications and significance of the comet assay

Mutagenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-221

  Jha, Awadhesh N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ENDOSULFAN; HERBICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COMET ASSAY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POINT MUTATION; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS;

EID: 44449170694     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gen014     Document Type: Review

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