Recommendations for design of the rat comet assay

Mutagenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-240

  Smith, Catherine C ^a   Adkins, Deborah J ^a   Martin, Elizabeth A ^a   O'Donovan, Michael R ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; METHYLNITROSOUREA; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE MARROW; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STOMACH; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE PREPARATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; ANIMALS; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; LIVER; MALE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STOMACH;

EID: 44649122853     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gen008     Document Type: Article

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