The in vitro micronucleus test is a genotoxicity test for the detection of micronuclei in the cytoplasm of interphase cells and has been described in detail in OECD TG 487. Micronuclei may originate from acentric chromosome fragments (i.e. lacking a centromere), or whole chromosomes that
Last updated on: 23-11-2022 - 16:31
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Status: Published in peer reviewed journal, Validated by an external party (e.g. OECD, EURL ECVAM,…)
