A more comprehensive application of the micronucleus technique for biomonitoring of genetic damage rates in human populations—experiences from the Chernobyl catastrophe

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The current method for scoring micronuclei as a measure of genetic damage rate in peripheral blood cells is to enumerate this end point in cytokinesis-blocked binucleated cultured lymphocytes. However, one can expect that, due to chronic exposure to genotoxins or inherent genetic instability, micronuclei may be expressed continually in vivo in dividing cell populations such as the progenitor cell lineages leading...

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