High micronucleus frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes of untreated cancer patients irrespective of gender, smoking and cancer sites

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Milosevic Djordjevic, Olivera ^a   Grujičić, Darko ^a   Vasković, Željko ^b   Marinković, Dragoslav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^c SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Chromosomal instability; Different cancer site; Micronuclei; Peripheral blood lymphocytes; Untreated cancer patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; FEMALE; GENETIC DAMAGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHARYNX CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CYTOCHALASIN B; CYTOKINESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77949425973     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.220.115     Document Type: Article

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