Genotoxicity assessment in Eisenia andrei coelomocytes: A study of the induction of DNA damage and micronuclei in earthworms exposed to B[a]P- and TCDD-spiked soils

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 746, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-41

  Sforzini, Susanna ^a   Boeri, Marta ^a   Dagnino, Alessandro ^a   Oliveri, Laura ^a   Bolognesi, Claudia ^b   Viarengo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coelomocytes; Comet assay; DNA damage; Earthworms; Genotoxicity; Micronuclei

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BENZO[A]PYRENE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELOMOCYTE; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA DAMAGE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EISENIA (ANNELID); EISENIA ANDREI; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ANIMALIA; EISENIA ANDREI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860383250     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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