micronucleus assay การใช้

• Since micronucleus assays reflect chromosomal aberrations reliably and rapidly, they are extremely useful for a quick assessment of chromosomal damage.
• Micronucleus assay systems are very economical, require much less skill in scoring that conventional metaphase tests, and are much faster than these conventional tests.
• Many micronucleus assays have been developed to test for the presence of these structures and determine their frequency in cells exposed to certain chemicals or subjected to stressful conditions.
• _When a variety of cultured animal cells were exposed to radiation from cell phones to see if it caused cancer-inducing genetic damage, only one test battery, known as a micronucleus assay, produced a negative result on one type of human white blood cells.