Investigating the effects of dietary folic acid on sperm count, DNA damage and mutation in Balb/c mice

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 737, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Swayne, Breanne G ^a   Kawata, Alice ^a   Behan, Nathalie A ^b   Williams, Andrew ^a   Wade, Mike G ^a   MacFarlane, Amanda J ^b   Yauk, Carole L ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Health Canada and World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Standardization and Evaluation of Biologicals   (Canada)

Author keywords

ESTR; Folic acid; Heritable mutations; Sperm; Sperm chromatin structure assay

Indexed keywords

ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FOLIC ACID;

ADULT ANIMAL; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EXPANDED SIMPLE TANDEM REPEAT; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; LACTATION; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; VITAMIN INTAKE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; WEANING;

MUS;

EID: 84865064174     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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