The HUMNxl scoring criteria for different cell types and nuclear anomalies in the buccal micronucleus cytome assay - An update and expanded photogallery

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 753, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 100-113

  Bolognesi, Claudia ^a   Knasmueller, Siegfried ^b   Nersesyan, Armen ^b   Thomas, Philip ^c   Fenech, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Buccal micronucleus cytome assay (BMcyt); DNA damage; Exfoliated cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANAPHASE; APOPTOSIS; BASAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BUCCAL MICRONUCLEUS CYTOME ASSAY; CELL ASSAY; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL KINETICS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; MICROFILAMENT; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONDISJUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TETRAPLOIDY; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; BUCCAL MICRONUCLEUS CYTOME ASSAY (BMCYT); CYTOLOGY; EXFOLIATED CELLS; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

BIOMONITORING; BUCCAL MICRONUCLEUS CYTOME ASSAY (BMCYT); DNA DAMAGE; EXFOLIATED CELLS;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MOUTH MUCOSA;

EID: 84887015984     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: 13882139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2013.07.002     Document Type: Review

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