The use of cyprinodont fish, Aphanius fasciatus, as a sentinel organism to detect complex genotoxic mixtures in the coastal lagoon ecosystem

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 742, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 31-36

  Mosesso, Pasquale ^a   Angeletti, Dario ^a   Pepe, Gaetano ^a   Pretti, Carlo ^b   Nascetti, Giuseppe ^a   Bellacima, Raffaela ^a   Cimmaruta, Roberta ^a   Jha, Awadhesh N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphanius fasciatus; Comet assay; Ecotoxicology; Environmental pollutants; Genetic toxicology; Mediterranean Killifish; Sentinel organism

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHANIUS FASCIATUS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DNA DAMAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ECOSYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LAGOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SALINITY; SEASHORE; X RAY;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DNA DAMAGE; ECOSYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTES; ITALY; KILLIFISHES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

APHANIUS FASCIATUS; CYPRINODONTOIDEI;

EID: 84856092531     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2011.11.018     Document Type: Article

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