Chemical Mutagens: Principles and Methods for Their Detection

by Alexander Hollaender and Frederick J. De Serres

Volume 9 of Chemical Mutagens consists mainly of chapters discussing the development and validation of short-term assays to detect the mutagenic effects of environmental chemicals. These chapters include an assay with the grasshopper neuroblast, a comparison of mutagenic responses of human lung-derived and skin-derived diploid fibroblasts, a forward-mutation assay in Salmonella, a multigene sporulation test in Bacillus subtilis, a specific locus assay...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306421712
• ISBN13: 9780306421716
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 572 Pages