Proposal of an in vivo comet assay using haemocytes of Drosophila melanogaster

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-169

  Carmona, Erico R ^a   Guecheva, Temenouga N ^b   Creus, Amadeu ^a   Marcos, Ricardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Drosophila melanogaster; Genotoxicity; Haemocytes

Indexed keywords

DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; DNA; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENOTOXICITY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GAMMA RAYS; HEMOCYTES; LARVA; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE; RADIATION DOSAGE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79551592768     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20604     Document Type: Article

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