Use of whole blood directly for single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay in vivo and white blood cells for in vitro assay

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 564, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-82

  Chuang, Cheng Hung ^a   Hu, Miao Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Cryopreservation; Lymphocytes; White blood cells; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; IRON; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD COMPONENT; CENTRIFUGATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INJECTION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEUKOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESERVATION; COMET ASSAY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MUTAGENS; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; RATS;

EID: 5144233210     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2004.07.013     Document Type: Article

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