Assessment of in vivo genotoxicity of the rodent carcinogen furan: Evaluation of DNA damage and induction of micronuclei in mouse splenocytes

Mutagenesis

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-62

  Leopardi, Paola ^a   Cordelli, Eugenia ^b   Villani, Paola ^b   Cremona, Tiziana Patrizia ^a   Conti, Luigi ^a   De Luca, Gabriele ^a   Crebelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; FURAN; HISTONE H2AX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; COMET ASSAY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FURANS; HISTONES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; SPLEEN;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 73649144555     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gep043     Document Type: Article

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