Recommended protocols for the liver micronucleus test: Report of the IWGT working group

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 783, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-18

  Uno, Yoshifumi ^a   Morita, Takeshi ^b   Luijten, Mirjam ^c   Beevers, Carol ^d   Hamada, Shuichi ^e   Itoh, Satoru ^f   Ohyama, Wakako ^g   Takasawa, Hironao ^e  

^a MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UK   (United Kingdom)

^e LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^g YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

IWGT; Liver; Micronucleus test; Protocol; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ANEUGEN; CLASTOGEN; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTOXICITY ASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; METHODOLOGY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LIVER; METABOLISM; MICRONUCLEUS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANEUGENS; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BONE MARROW CELLS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LIVER; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; RATS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84928785447     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2014.10.010     Document Type: Article

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