High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Banerjee, Mayukh ^a,c   Banerjee, Nilanjana ^a   Bhattacharjee, Pritha ^a   Mondal, Debapriya ^b,d   Lythgoe, Paul R ^b   Martínez, Mario ^b   Pan, Jianxin ^b   Polya, David A ^b   Giri, Ashok K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; MUTAGENIC AGENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MIDDLE AGED; RICE; RISK FACTOR; URINE; WATER POLLUTANT; YOUNG ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; TOXICITY;

ADULT; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880838412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02195     Document Type: Article

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