The HUMN and HUMNxL international collaboration projects on human micronucleus assays in lymphocytes and buccal cells-past, present and future

Mutagenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 239-245

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

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Errol Zeiger Consulting   (United States)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

ⁱ IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RISK; CHEEK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CYTOKINESIS; DNA DAMAGE; EPITHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE CULTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEOPLASM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MUTAGENIC AGENT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MOUTH MUCOSA; MUTAGENS; NEOPLASMS; SMOKING;

EID: 78650639748     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geq051     Document Type: Review

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