Assessment and reduction of comet assay variation in relation to DNA damage: Studies from the European Comet Assay Validation Group

Mutagenesis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-111

  Møller, Peter ^a   Möller, Lennart ^b   Godschalk, Roger W L ^c   Jones, George D D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-FORMAMIDOPYRIMIDINE GLYCOSYLASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 77749323398     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gep067     Document Type: Note

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