Terrestrial gastropods (Helix spp) as sentinels of primary DNA damage for biomonitoring purposes: A validation study

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-212

  Angeletti, Dario ^a   Sebbio, Claudia ^a   Carere, Claudio ^a   Cimmaruta, Roberta ^a   Nascetti, Giuseppe ^a   Pepe, Gaetano ^a   Mosesso, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coal power plants; Comet assay; Common land snail; Ecotoxicology; Environmental pollutants; Genotoxicity; Helix spp; Primary DNA damage; Sentinel organism

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEAD; NICKEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; GENOTOXICITY; HELIX (SNAIL); HELIX ASPERSA; HELIX VERMICULATA; ITALY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAIL; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TISSUE LEVEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HELIX (SNAILS); HEMOCYTES; ITALY; MUTAGENS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84875073855     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.21766     Document Type: Article

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