Buccal micronucleus cytome assay

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 825-837

  Thomas, Philip ^a   Holland, Nina ^b   Bolognesi, Claudia ^c   Kirsch Volders, Micheline ^d   Bonassi, Stefano ^c   Zeiger, Errol ^e   Knasmueller, Siegfried ^f   Fenech, Michael ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e Errol Zeiger Consulting   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BUCCAL MICRONUCLEUS CYTOME ASSAY; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CHEEK; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFESTYLE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NEOPLASM; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; REFERENCE VALUES; REGENERATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 66849142332     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.53     Document Type: Article

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