Antioxidants and the Comet assay

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 681, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-67

  Cemeli, Eduardo ^a   Baumgartner, Adolf ^a   Anderson, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Comet assay; Review

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; BUTYLCRESOL; CAROTENE; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IDARUBICIN; IMATINIB; IRON CHELATING AGENT; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; MELANIN; MELATONIN; MITOMYCIN C; MOLSIDOMINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEA POLYPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN B GROUP;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMET ASSAY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESEARCH; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAROTENOIDS; CATALASE; COMET ASSAY; DIET; DNA DAMAGE; FLAVONOIDS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; ISOFLAVONES; MELATONIN; PHENOLS; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VITAMINS;

EID: 62249171543     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2008.05.002     Document Type: Review

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