Bone marrow micronucleus assay: a review of the mouse stocks used and their published mean spontaneous micronucleus frequencies.

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Bone marrow micronucleus assay: a review of the mouse stocks used and their published mean spontaneous micronucleus frequencies.

Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 1994

Salamone M F, Mavournin K H

Abstract excerpt

We have examined published negative control data from 581 papers on micronucleated bone marrow polychromatic erythrocytes (mnPCE) for differences in mean frequency and the frequency distribution profile among the mouse stocks used with the bone marrow micronucleus assay. For the 55 mouse stocks w...

Topics

Animals
Bone Marrow
Bone Marrow Cells
Databases, Bibliographic
Erythrocytes
Gene Frequency
Hybridization, Genetic
Mice
Mice, Inbred Strains
Micronucleus Tests
Mutation
Reference Values
Reproducibility of Results

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