A high-throughput in vivo micronucleus assay for genome instability screening in mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 205-215

  Balmus, Gabriel ^a,b   Karp, Natasha A ^b   Ng, Bee Ling ^b   Jackson, Stephen P ^a,b   Adams, David J ^b   McIntyre, Rebecca E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENDER; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MICE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS;

EID: 84925954053     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.010     Document Type: Article

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