Treatment of pregnant women with a betamimetic and verapamil increases the micronuclei frequency in umbilical cord blood kymphocytes

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-371

  Grujičić, Darko ^a   Milošević Djordjević, Olivera ^a   Arsenijevic, Slobodan ^a   Marinković, Dragoslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Betamimetic; Micronuclei; Umbilical cord blood lymphocytes; Verapamil

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FENOTEROL; HEXOPRENALINE; RITODRINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL TREATMENT; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOTHER; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PROBABILITY; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; PREGNANCY; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 53249125250     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.215.363     Document Type: Article

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