Environmental lead exposure increases micronuclei in children
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Environmental lead exposure increases micronuclei in children.
The objective of this pilot study was to investigate the contribution of environmental exposures to lead in the development of cytogenetic damage detected as the frequency of micronuclei (MN) in children. The other aim was to apply the MN assay in combination with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using a pan-centromeric chromosome probe to elucidate the formation mechanism of induced M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mutagenesis
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0267-8357,1464-3804
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gem004