Download or read book Test No. 487: In Vitro Mammalian Cell Micronucleus Test written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The in vitro micronucleus test is a genotoxicity test for the detection of micronuclei in the cytoplasm of interphase cells. Micronuclei may originate from acentric chromosome fragments (i.e. lacking a centromere), or whole chromosomes that are ...