Apigenin ameliorates gamma radiation-induced cytogenetic alterations in cultured human blood lymphocytes

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 747, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-76

  Begum, Naziya ^a   Prasad, N Rajendra ^a   Kanimozhi, G ^a   Hasan, Annie Q ^b  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KAMINENI HOSPITALS   (India)

Author keywords

Apigenin; Chromosomal aberration; Comet assay; Cytokinesis block micronuclei; Radiation

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; COBALT 60;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOKINESIS; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENTS; APIGENIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84862309348     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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