Quercetin ameliorates gamma radiation-induced DNA damage and biochemical changes in human peripheral blood lymphocytes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Devipriya, Nagarajan ^a   Sudheer, Adluri Ram ^a   Srinivasan, Marimuthu ^a   Menon, Venugopal P ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Dicentric aberration; Lymphocytes; Micronuclei; Quercetin; Radiation

Indexed keywords

QUERCETIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PLASMIDS; QUERCETIN; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 46649087125     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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