Some causes of inter-laboratory variation in the results of comet assay

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 770, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-22

  Sirota, Nikolai P ^a   Zhanataev, Aliy K ^b   Kuznetsova, Elena A ^a   Khizhnyak, Eugenii P ^a   Anisina, Elena A ^b   Durnev, Andrei D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alkaline electrophoresis; Bone marrow cells; Comet assay; DNA damage; MMS; X ray

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE LABORATORY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENATURATION; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRIC FIELD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERLABORATORY; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; LABORATORY; METABOLISM; RADIATION RESPONSE; STANDARDS; TOXICITY; X RAY;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LABORATORIES; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; X-RAYS;

EID: 84901986079     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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