Simplified method for the collection, storage, and comet assay analysis of DNA damage in whole blood

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 719-725

  Al Salmani, Kamla ^a   Abbas, Hussein H K ^a   Schulpen, Sjors ^b   Karbaschi, Mahsa ^a   Abdalla, Intisar ^a   Bowman, Karen J ^a   So, Kwok K ^a   Evans, Mark D ^a   Jones, George D D ^a   Godschalk, Roger W ^b   Cooke, Marcus S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Blood; Comet assay; DNA damage; Free radicals; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD VOLUME; CELL ISOLATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CELL LINE; COMET ASSAY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 79959992487     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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