Chromosomal aberrations in cultured human lymphocytes treated with the fungicide, Thiram

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-351

  Santovito, Alfredo ^a   Cervella, Piero ^a   Delpero, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

CA; fungicides; genotoxic effects; mutagenesis; pesticides

Indexed keywords

THIRAM;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMET ASSAY; FRUIT; GRAPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS INDEX; POTATO; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; STRAWBERRY; TOBACCO; VEGETABLE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MITOTIC INDEX; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THIRAM;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VITACEAE;

EID: 84862894044     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: 15256014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01480545.2011.627862     Document Type: Article

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