2,6-dithiopurine blocks toxicity and mutagenesis in human skin cells exposed to sulfur mustard analogues, 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide and 2-chloroethyl methyl sulfide

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-503

  Powell, K Leslie ^a   Boulware, Stephen ^a   Thames, Howard ^b   Vasquez, Karen M ^a   MacLeod, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 MERCAPTOPURINE DERIVATIVE; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; MUSTARD GAS DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MUTAGENESIS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SKIN CELL; SKIN TUMOR;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOTOXINS; HUMANS; MUSTARD GAS; MUTAGENESIS; PURINES; SKIN; SULFIDES;

EID: 77949368186     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx9001918     Document Type: Article

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