The effects of maternal irradiation during adulthood on mutation induction and transgenerational instability in mice

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 732, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 21-25

  Abouzeid Ali, Hamdy E ^a,b   Barber, Ruth C ^a   Dubrova, Yuri E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Germline; Instability; Mouse; Mutation; Radiation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; INDUCED MUTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIATION INJURY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MALE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED CBA; MUTATION RATE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 84858796347     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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