Mutagenesis Advance Access originally published online on July 13, 2006
Mutagenesis 2006 21(4):267; doi:10.1093/mutage/gel027
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Published by Oxford University Press [2006] on behalf of the UK Environmental Mutagen Society.
Re: The evaluation of micronucleus frequency by acridine orange fluorescent staining in peripheral blood of rats treated with lead acetate. (Mutagenesis, 20, 411415, 2005)

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The authors thank Dr Raymond J. Proudlock for his comments on their article. First, studies on the genotoxicity of lead salt are inconclusive. Pelclova et al. (1
) did not detect a significant increase in structural aberrations (chromosome and chromatid exchanges, and breaks)
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