The comet assay in sperm - Assessing genotoxins in male germ cells

Issues in Toxicology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 331-369

  Baumgartner, Adolf ^a   Cemeli, Eduardo ^a   Laubenthal, Julian ^a   Anderson, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

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