Vehicle and positive control values from the in vivo rodent comet assay and biomonitoring studies using human lymphocytes: Historical database and influence of technical aspects

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 633-642

  Pant, Kamala ^a   Springer, S ^a   Bruce, S ^a   Lawlor, T ^a   Hewitt, N ^b   Aardema, M J ^c  

^a BioReliance Corporation   (United States)

^b SWS   (Germany)

^c Marilyn Aardema Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet with frozen cell suspension; Historical data; Human biomonitoring using comet assay; In vivo comet assay; Multiple tissues; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL SUSPENSION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFERENCE VALUE; SPLEEN; STOMACH; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FREEZING; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RODENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TAIL;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MICE, INBRED ICR; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RODENTIA; TAIL;

EID: 84907953044     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.21881     Document Type: Article

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