State of the art survey of the buccal micronucleus assay- A first stage in the HUMNXL project initiative

Mutagenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-302

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Errol Zeiger Consulting   (United States)

^e GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; CELL TYPE; CHEEK; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAINING;

DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTAGENS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 67650921921     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gep019     Document Type: Note

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