Establishment of the comet assay in the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818)

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Grazeffe, Vanessa Siqueira ^a   Tallarico, Lenita de Freitas ^a   Pinheiro, Alessandro de Sá ^a   Kawano, Toshie ^a   Suzuki, Miriam Fussae ^b   Okazaki, Kayo ^b   Pereira, Carlos Alberto de Bragança ^c   Nakano, Eliana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^c Instituto de Matemática   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomphalaria; DNA damage; Freshwater snail; Ionizing radiation; Single cell gel comet assay

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; BLOOD CELL; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA MIGRATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GENOTOXICITY; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELIABILITY; SNAIL;

BASOMMATOPHORA; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 46849088190     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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