The comet assay in human biomonitoring: Gene-environment interactions

Mutagenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-205

  Dusinska, Maria ^a,b   Collins, Andrew R ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEAD; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARCINOGENESIS; COMET ASSAY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

COMET ASSAY; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 44649174446     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gen007     Document Type: Review

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