Flow cytometric scoring of micronucleated erythrocytes: An efficient platform for assessing in vivo cytogenetic damage

Mutagenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 139-145

  Dertinger, Stephen D ^a   Torous, Dorothea K ^a   Hayashi, Makoto ^b   MacGregor, James T ^c  

^a LITRON LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Biosafety Research Center   (Japan)

^c Toxicology Consulting Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BONE MARROW; CYTOGENETICS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; REVIEW; RODENT; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 78650662652     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geq055     Document Type: Review

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