Novel method for the high-throughput processing of slides for the comet assay

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Karbaschi, Mahsa ^a,b   Cooke, Marcus S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMET ASSAY; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84923322647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07200     Document Type: Article

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