The new ISSMIC database on in vivo micronucleus and its role in assessing genotoxicity testing strategies

Mutagenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-92

  Benigni, Romualdo ^a   Bossa, Cecilia ^a   Tcheremenskaia, Olga ^a   Battistelli, Chiara Laura ^a   Crettaz, Pierre ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DATA BASE; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

CARCINOGENS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA DAMAGE; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84555195024     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/ger064     Document Type: Article

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