New Method of Specimen Preparation as Cell Suspension for a Micronucleus Test

Genes and Environment

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 100-106

  Kawabata, Masayoshi ^a   Takasawa, Hironao ^a   Minowa, Shigenori ^a   Saitou, Hitoshi ^a   Nakagawa, Munehiro ^a   Nakajima, Madoka ^b   Hamada, Shuichi ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Biosafety Research Center   (Japan)

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EID: 84977771137     PISSN: 18807046     EISSN: 18807062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3123/jemsge.29.100     Document Type: Article

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