30 years of the Comet Assay: an overview with some new insights

• मुख्य लेखक: Andrew Collins (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Sabine Langie (auth), Amaya Azqueta (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Genetics (non-medical); Ecotoxicology; clinical applications; Alkaline comet assay; DNA Repair; Quality control; Genotoxicity testing; DNA Damage; human biomonitoring; high throughput; nanotoxicology
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

By means of this 'Frontiers in Genetics' research topic, we are celebrating 30 years of the Comet Assay. The first paper on this single-cell gel electrophoresis assay was published in 1984 by O. Ostling and K.J. Johanson (Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. Vol.123: 291-298). The comet assay is...