The vast number of chemicals existing or being added into the environment, have
globally aroused great concern regarding their adverse effects in human
population. Development and validation of sensitive and better test systems
which can assess the adverse effects of chemicals at an early stage for
intervention strategies to be implemented in time is currently in progress. This
book documents the latest research and showcases the versatile, state-of-the-art
technique - the Comet assay - in the field of modern toxicology. The assay is a
simple, sensitive rapid and visual technique for the quantitative and
qualitative assessment of DNA damage in single cells. The Comet Assay in
Toxicology is