DNA damage in peripheral blood leukocytes of physically active individuals as measured by the alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis assay.

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：:DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) are covalent linkages between two strands of DNA, and their presence interferes with essential metabolic processes such as transcription and replication. These lesions are extremely toxic, and their repair is essential for genome stability and cell survival. In this review, we will di...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Sharma S,Canman CE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accessibility of reactive metabolites to test cells is critical for a genotoxic response. However, sulfo-conjugates formed outside may not readily enter cells, and some metabolites formed by cytochromes P450 (CYPs) may not endure transport. This topic was addressed in the present study, using V79 cells engineered ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zhu N,Hu K,Li Z,Chen Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F- is not mutagenic in standard bacterial systems, but produces chromosome aberrations and gene mutations in cultured mammalian cells. Although there is disagreement in the literature concerning the ability of F- to induce chromosome aberrations in cultured human and rodent cells, the weight of the evidence leads to t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zeiger E,Shelby MD,Witt KL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heritable mutations may result in a wide variety of detrimental outcomes, from embryonic lethality to genetic disease in the offspring. Despite this, today's commonly used test batteries do not include assays for germ cell mutation. Current challenges include a lack of practical assays and concrete evidence for human ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Singer TM,Yauk CL

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is a critical event in the development of human cancers. LOH is thought to result from either a large deletion or recombination between homologous alleles during repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). These types of genetic alterations produce mutations in the TK gene mutation assay, w...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Honma M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in Taiwanese women. Cigarette smoking cannot explain the high lung cancer mortality in this population because less than 10% of women in Taiwan are smokers. Therefore, environmental factors other than smoking may play an important role in lung cancer development in ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Cheng YW,Hsieh LL,Lin PP,Chen CP,Chen CY,Lin TS,Su JM,Lee H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riddelliine (RID) is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in plants of the genera Crotalaria, Amsinckia, and Senecio in the United States. RID has been extensively studied in a wide variety of in vitro short-term genotoxicity tests and has yielded positive responses in most test systems; however, there are fewer data availa...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mirsalis JC,Steinmetz KL,Blazak WF,Spalding JW

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:In order to characterize in vivo gene mutations that occur during fetal development, molecular analyses were undertaken of mutant 6-thioguanine resistant T-lymphocytes isolated from placental cord blood samples of 13 normal male newborns. These mutant T-cells were studied to define hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosylt...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： McGinniss MJ,Nicklas JA,Albertini RJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandem-base mutations (TBM) are associated with ultraviolet light and other mutagens. Herein, we report an age- and tissue-specific difference in the frequency of spontaneous TBM in Big Blue transgenic mice. A total of 390 mutants from liver and adipose tissue contained 17 and 4 TBM, respectively, while no TBM were de...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Buettner VL,Hill KA,Halangoda A,Sommer SS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coal tar (CT) is a thick black liquid produced as a by-product of coal carbonization to produce coke or manufactured gas. It is comprised a complex mixture of polycyclic aromatic compounds, including a wide range of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), many of which are genotoxic and carcinogenic. CT is used in so...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Long AS,Watson M,Arlt VM,White PA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monohaloacetic acids (monoHAAs) are a major class of drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) and are cytotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic, and teratogenic. We propose a model of toxic action based on monoHAA-mediated inhibition of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) as a target cytosolic enzyme. This mo...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dad A,Jeong CH,Pals JA,Wagner ED,Plewa MJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of the human carcinogen, treosulphan, and its hydrolysis product, dl-1,2:3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB), were studied in Chinese hamster ovary, AS52, cells. Treosulphan (0.1-1.0 mM) is toxic and mutagenic at the gpt locus. A strong pH dependence was noted. DEB is cytotoxic and mutagenic at a...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zhu S,Zeiger E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major pathway of bioactivation of procarcinogenic heterocyclic aromatic amines (HCAs) is cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2)-catalyzed N-hydroxylation and subsequent esterification by O-acetyltransferase (O-AT). We have previously reported that an umu tester strain, Salmonella typhimurium OY1001/1A2, endogenously coexpre...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Aryal P,Terashita T,Guengerich FP,Shimada T,Oda Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the influence of DNA repair by Ogt alkyltransferase on the distribution of alkylnitrosourea-induced mutations, we have analysed in Ogt-proficient and Ogt-deficient bacterial strains the DNA sequence changes of a total of 357 independent mutations occurring within the initial part of the lacl gene of Esche...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Vidal A,Abril N,Pueyo C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium/copper chlorophyllin (CHL) is a water-soluble derivative of chlorophyll that exhibits antimutagenic activity in several short-term genotoxicity assays and inhibits carcinogen-DNA binding in vivo. The effect of CHL pretreatment on the excretion of mutagens in the urine and feces of male Sprague-Dawley rats has b...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dashwood R,Liew C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This collection of articles was inspired by the long-standing relationship between the Environmental Mutagen Society and Latin American scientists, and by the program for the 39th Environmental Mutagen Society meeting in Puerto Rico in 2008, which included a symposium featuring "South of the border" scientists. This c...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Olivero OA,Larramendy M,Soloneski S,Menck CF,Matta J,Folle GA,Zamorano-Ponce E,Spivak G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-OHP), an exposure biomarker for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), was used to identify potential sources of PAH exposure for 660 Koreans who were not occupationally exposed to PAHs (65% male; 35% female; mean age, 36.5 +/- 11.1 years). In this study, 74% of subjects had detectable lev...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yang M,Kim S,Lee E,Cheong HK,Chang SS,Kang D,Choi Y,Lee SM,Jang JY

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorinated drinking water contains several chlorohydroxyfuranone (CHF) by-products whose contribution to cancer risk is not presently known. 3,4-Dichloro-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (MCA), 3-chloro-4-(chloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (CMCF), and 3- chloro-4-methyl-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (MCF) were studied for th...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mäki-Paakkanen J,Laaksonen M,Munter T,Kronberg L,Komulainen H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor breast cancer susceptibility protein 1 (BRCA1) protects our cells from genomic instability in part by facilitating the efficient repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). BRCA1 promotes the error-free repair of DSBs through homologous recombination and is also implicated in the regulation of nonh...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Thompson EG,Fares H,Dixon K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is often treated with diuretics, like hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ). Previous results on the in vitro genotoxicity of HCTZ are equivocal. In the present study, we have evaluated the genotoxicity of HCTZ in cultured human lymphocytes using the Cytokinesis Blocked Micronucleus (CBMN) assay. In addition, micron...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Andrianopoulos C,Stephanou G,Demopoulos NA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genotoxic effects associated with automobile painting were analyzed using a panel of biomarkers. Chromosomal aberrations (CAs), sister chromatid exchange (SCE), and micronuclei were evaluated in 25 car painters (12 smokers, 13 nonsmokers) working in different automobile paint-shops in Italy and in 37 control subje...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Testa A,Festa F,Ranaldi R,Giachelia M,Tirindelli D,De Marco A,Owczarek M,Guidotti M,Cozzi R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to high concentrations of hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] in drinking water was associated with an increased incidence of oral tumors in F344 rats in a 2-year cancer bioassay conducted by the National Toxicology Program. These tumors primarily occurred at 180 ppm Cr(VI) and appeared to originate from the gingiva...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Thompson CM,Young RR,Suh M,Dinesdurage HR,Elbekai RH,Harris MA,Rohr AC,Proctor DM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenoxyherbicide and peroxisome proliferator 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) was tested for its ability to induce sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in chick embryos. Erbitox E30 (a commercial formulation containing 28% MCPA sodium potassium salt as active ingredient) was injected into the air chamber in ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Arias E

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:A quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) has been formulated for 15 polycyclic aromatic nitro compounds acting on E. coli PQ37. Upon damage of DNA by these substances beta-galactosidase is induced and can be easily assayed colorimetrically, hence, this is a short-term test for mutagenicity. The QSAR (log ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Debnath AK,Hansch C

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional study was designed to determine whether occupational exposure to a complex mixture of pesticides results in a significant increase of DNA damage in farmers chronically exposed to pesticides in open fields. Leukocytes from 47 agriculture workers exposed to pesticides and 50 controls were evaluated wit...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bhalli JA,Ali T,Asi MR,Khalid ZM,Ceppi M,Khan QM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of spontaneous mutation spectra derived from different transgenic constructs can provide valuable insights for interpreting the mechanisms of spontaneous mutation. In this study, spontaneous mutation frequencies and spectra of the lacI transgene are compared in the liver of C57BL/6, B6C3F1, and BC-1 mice an...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zhang S,Glickman BW,de Boer JG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutagenesis moonshot addressing the influence of the environment on our genetic wellbeing was launched just 2 months before astronauts landed on the moon. Its impetus included the discovery that X-rays (Muller HJ. [1927]: Science 64:84-87) and chemicals (Auerbach and Robson. [1946]: Nature 157:302) were germ-cell mu...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： DeMarini DM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00