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Open AccessThe study of calcified atherosclerotic arteries: an alternative to evaluate the composition of a problematic tissue reveals new insight including metakaryotic cells
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Mutation in Single-Cell Systems Induced by Low-Level Mutagen Exposure
A principal question currently facing toxicologists and radio-biologists concerns how measurements can be made of mutations induced by low levels of chemicals or radiation. In this paper, we focus on measureme...
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Analysis of Chemically Induced Mutation in Single Cell Populations
This discussion is about tools to analyze the complex relationship between chemicals and mutation in a relatively simple biological system: the exponentially growing single cell population. Three assumptions a...