DNA sequence analysis of X-ray induced Adh null mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a hereditary hematological disease that is characterized by a point mutation in the beta globin S gene and has no specific treatment; hydroxyurea (HU) is the only therapeutic agent used in clinical practice. In the present study, we evaluated the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage index (DI...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Maia Filho PA,Pereira JF,Almeida Filho TP,Cavalcanti BC,Sousa JC,Lemes RPG

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms have been reported in several cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes, including CYP1B1 which metabolically activates procarcinogens present in tobacco to carcinogenic intermediates. This study used a case-control approach in North Indian population to determine associations between genetic variants in CYP1B...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Katiyar T,Maurya SS,Hasan F,Singh AP,Khan AJ,Hadi R,Singh S,Bhatt MLB,Parmar D

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinoline is a specific and potent carcinogen to the rat and mouse liver. Studies are described here in which it was evaluated for its ability to initiate unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in the rat liver in vivo. Although some individual animals showed indications of a marginal response the absence of clear group posi...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ashby J,Mohammed R,Lefevre PA,Bandara L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A working group of five statisticians experienced in the use of statistical methods in mutagenicity reviewed aspects of the statistical analysis of genotoxicity test procedures. Issues discussed included methods for integrating biological importance and statistical significance, the relationship of the experimental un...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Lovell DP,Yoshimura I,Hothorn LA,Margolin BH,Soper K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A data base consisting of 61 heterocyclic amines formed during food preparation and their des-amino analogs were subjected to structure-activity analysis using the CASE method, a structural activity relational expert system. The program identified the major structural determinants associated with mutagenic activity or...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zhang YP,Klopman G,Rosenkranz HS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amsacrine (4'-(9-acridinylamino)methanesulphon-m-anisidide) is an antileukemic drug which inhibits topoisomerase II (topo II) enzymes. We studied effects of two concentrations of amsacrine on the GM10115A cell line. This is a Chinese hamster line containing a single human chromosome 4, which can be readily visualised ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ferguson LR,Whiteside G,Holdaway KM,Baguley BC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pig-a assay is an emerging and promising in vivo method to determine mutagenic potential of chemicals. Since its development in 2008, remarkable progress has been made in harmonizing and characterizing the test procedures, primarily using known mutagenic chemicals. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ji Z,Settivari RS,LeBaron MJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the first application of an in vivo alkaline comet assay using haemocytes of Drosophila melanogaster larvae. These cells, which play a role similar to that of mammalian blood, can be easily obtained and represent an overall exposure of the treated larvae. To validate the assay, we evaluated the res...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Carmona ER,Guecheva TN,Creus A,Marcos R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to emissions from laser printers during the printing process is commonplace worldwide, both in the home and workplace environment. In the present study, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of the emission from five low to medium-throughput laser printers were investigated with respect to the release of ozone (O(3...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Tang T,Gminski R,Könczöl M,Modest C,Armbruster B,Mersch-Sundermann V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,6-Dicyano-4-nitroaniline and 2-cyano-4-nitroaniline (CNNA; 2-amino-5-nitrobenzonitrile) are potent mutagens in the Ames test, even though unsubstituted nitroanilines (NAs) are no more than weak mutagens. These compounds are putative reduction products of many commercial azo dyes, including Disperse Blue 165, Dispers...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Josephy PD,Dhanoa J,Elzawy G,Heney K,Petrie L,Senis C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic dyes are released in wastewater from textile manufacturing plants, and many of these dyes are genotoxic. In the present study, the mutagenicity of azo, anthraquinone, and triphenyl methane dyes was investigated before and after successive biodegradation with activated sludge and the ligninolytic fungus, Irpe...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Malachová K,Pavlícková Z,Novotný C,Svobodová K,Lednická D,Musílková E

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Third instar larvae of Drosophila melanogaster transdihybrid for mwh and flr were exposed to varying concentrations of cisplatin by feeding on dry media wetted with aqueous solutions of the test compound. Larval feeding continued until pupation, and surviving transdihybrid adults were collected seven days following co...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Katz AJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous acid (NA) is often presumed to cause base substitutions in organisms with double-stranded DNA as a direct consequence of oxidative deamination of adenine and of cytosine residues. Here we summarize evidence indicating that other mechanisms are involved in the case of NA-induced G/C-->A/T transition mutations. ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hartman Z,Henrikson EN,Hartman PE,Cebula TA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron oxide nanoparticles (ION) with superparamagnetic properties hold great promise for use in various biomedical applications; specific examples include use as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, in targeted drug delivery, and for induced hyperthermia cancer treatments. Increasing potential applications r...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Valdiglesias V,Kiliç G,Costa C,Fernández-Bertólez N,Pásaro E,Teixeira JP,Laffon B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is provided that antitopoisomerase drugs induce chromosomal aberrations via the formation of DNA double strand breaks. Camptothecin, an inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase I, produced only chromatid-type aberrations, and in order to be effective it has to be present during the DNA replication. The fact that it ind...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Palitti F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bhawalpur is a major cotton-growing area in Pakistan. Cotton picking in Pakistan is carried out by females and as a result of the intensive use of pesticides during the growing season these females are exposed to pesticide residues in the picking season. In the present study, peripheral blood was obtained from 69 cott...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ali T,Bhalli JA,Rana SM,Khan QM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of the micronucleus test to assess radiation-induced chromosomal damage in human spermatozoa has been investigated. Micronuclei were scored in human sperm-hamster egg hybrids at the two-cell stage, after exposure of human spermatozoa to in vitro gamma-rays at doses of 0.00, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00,...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Tusell L,Alvarez R,Caballín MR,Genescà A,Miró R,Ribas M,Egozcue J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate whether blood-based genotoxicity endpoints can provide temporal and dose-response data within the low-dose carcinogenic range that could contribute to carcinogenic mode of action (MoA) assessments, we evaluated the sensitivity of flow cytometry-based micronucleus and Pig-a gene mutation assays at and below...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dertinger SD,Phonethepswath S,Avlasevich SL,Torous DK,Mereness J,Cottom J,Bemis JC,Macgregor JT

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work we analyse some properties of the pso4-1 (= xs9) mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is blocked in both reverse mutation and recombination. We have applied the "apparent survival test" as a method to characterize putative inducible error-prone repair activities related to the PSO4 g...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Severgnini A,Lillo O,Nunes E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic rodents are valuable models for investigating the genotoxicity of chemicals in vivo. Here, we report the establishment of a novel transgenic rat for genotoxicity analysis. In this model, about 10 copies of lambdaEG10 DNA carrying the gpt gene of E. coli and the red/gam genes of lambda phage are integrated p...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hayashi H,Kondo H,Masumura K,Shindo Y,Nohmi T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxic effects of therapeutic ultrasound are poorly documented, when compared with the wide use of this physical agent. The aim of this work was to investigate the clastogenic and aneugenic potential of 1 MHz ultrasound, employing intensities (200 and 300 mW/cm2 ) above the cavitational threshold, but in the range ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Udroiu I,Marinaccio J,Bedini A,Giliberti C,Palomba R,Sgura A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This laboratory has previously described a method for scoring the incidence of rodent blood Pig-a mutant phenotype erythrocytes using immunomagnetic separation in conjunction with flow cytometric analysis (In Vivo MutaFlow®). The current work extends this approach to human blood. The frequencies of CD59- and CD55-nega...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dertinger SD,Avlasevich SL,Bemis JC,Chen Y,MacGregor JT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage induced by solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation plays an important role in the induction of skin cancer. Although UVA constitutes the majority of solar UV radiation, it is less damaging to DNA than UVB. The DNA damage produced by UVA radiation, however, can be augmented in the presence of a photosensitizer. We ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Toyooka T,Ibuki Y,Takabayashi F,Goto R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) is a mutagenic carcinogen that is ubiquitous in our environment. To better understand the toxic effects of BaP and to explore the relationship between toxicity and toxicogenomics profiles, we assessed global mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) expression in Muta™Mouse. Adult male mice were exposed by oral g...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Malik AI,Williams A,Lemieux CL,White PA,Yauk CL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations have been carried out which have measured the influence of the repair polymerases on the yield of different types of chromosomal aberrations. The studies were mainly concerned with the effect of inhibiting the polymerases on the yield of aberrations. The polymerases fill in single strand regions, and th...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Moore RC,Bender MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of mutations induced by xenotoxins is a common task in the field of genetic toxicology. Mutations are often detected by clonally expanding potential mutant cells and genotyping each viable clone by Sanger sequencing. Such a "clone-by-clone" approach requires significant time and effort, and sometimes is...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Revollo JR,Crabtree NM,Pearce MG,Pacheco-Martinez MM,Dobrovolsky VN

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric pollution represents a relevant environmental hazard which has been associated with considerable excess mortality, morbidity, and increased rates of respiratory diseases in humans. To date, more than 3,000 environmental chemical compounds have been identified in the ambient atmosphere, including a variety ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bolognesi C,Merlo F,Rabboni R,Valerio F,Abbondandolo A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PC) is commonly diagnosed cancer in men but only a few risk factors, such as family history, ethnicity, and age have been established. Chromosomal instability is another possible risk factor but this has not been adequately explained previously. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that peripheral ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dhillon VS,Yeoh E,Salisbury C,Butters J,Di Matteo A,Olver I,Fenech M

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most women with breast cancer can become pregnant and give birth while undergoing radiation therapy and breastfeeding is generally not contraindicated. The induction of long-lived reactive species in proteins, such as casein by X-ray radiation and DNA damage to unexposed organisms, has been shown when ingesting irradi...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Solórzano-Meléndez A,Rodrigo-Alarcón R,Gómez-Meda BC,Zamora-Pérez AL,Ortiz-García RG,Bayardo-López LH,González-Virgen R,Gallegos-Arreola MP,Zúñiga-González GM

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There is scientific and regulatory interest in using mutation assays in transgenic mice in safety assessments for new chemicals and drugs. Currently these assays are in the process of being validated, and protocols for routine testing are being defined. Some of the issues and results to date with regard to assay valid...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Gorelick NJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00