Genetic variation in arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (AS3MT), arsenic metabolism and risk of basal cell carcinoma in a European population.

abstract：:Methyl 3,4-diphenyl-5-hydroxylamino-2-furoate (N-OH-MDPF) (I), methyl 3,4-diphenyl-5-acetoxyamino-2-furoate (N-OAc-MDPF) (II), methyl 3,4-diphenyl-N-hydroxy-5-acetylamino-2-furoate (N-OH-MDPAF) (III), and methyl 3,4-diphenyl-N-acetoxy-5-acetylamino-2-furoate (N-OAc-MDPAF) (IV) were synthesized and tested for mutagenic...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Swaminathan S,Hatcher JF,Yamamoto K,Tanaka A,Ichikawa M,Bryan GT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genotoxicity endpoints have been evaluated to define nonlinear dose-responses for SN 1 and SN 2 alkylating genotoxicants. Dose-response studies acknowledging the process of multistage tumorigenesis are important; however, data pertaining nonlinearity are not yet available. In this communication, the role of DN...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Becker K,Thomas AD,Kaina B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposure to coal dust causes coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), which is a chronic inflammatory and fibrotic lung disease. Recently, chronic inflammation has been accepted as a crucial factor in the pathogenesis of neoplasia. The chronic inflammation provides dynamic setting for oxidative stress and form...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ulker OC,Ustundag A,Duydu Y,Yucesoy B,Karakaya A

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：: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：:Lack of cell surface glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein(s) has been used as a reporter of Pig-a gene mutation in several model systems. As an extension of this work, our laboratory initiated development of an in vitro mutation assay based on the flow cytometric assessment of CD90.2 expression on the c...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bemis JC,Avlasevich SL,Labash C,McKinzie P,Revollo J,Dobrovolsky VN,Dertinger SD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA repair proteins XPD and XRCC1 are involved in the nucleotide and base excision repair of DNA lesions induced by many tobacco and environmental carcinogens. Common variant alleles at the XPD (312Asn, 751Gln) and XRCC1 (399Gln) loci have been identified and associated with increased risk for lung cancer. We ther...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hou SM,Ryk C,Kannio A,Angelini S,Fält S,Nyberg F,Husgafvel-Pursiainen K

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The aim of this research was to study the gaseous and particulate emissions of genotoxic substances during cooking with two types of methane stoves (a new one and an old one). The particulates were sampled both with a cascade impactor air sampler and an impinger with ice trap and analyzed by two bacterial mutagenicity...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Monarca S,Zanardini A,Feretti D,Falistocco E,Antonelli P,Resola S,Moretti M,Villarini M,Nardi G

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:We describe an in vivo mutagenesis model that utilizes reverse mutation and forward mutation at the endogenous Aprt locus. Reverse mutation provides an in situ method for detecting environments or agents that cause point mutations. Forward mutation detects large chromosomal events, including mitotic recombination, chr...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Stambrook PJ,Shao C,Stockelman M,Boivin G,Engle SJ,Tischfield JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome is programmed by the epigenome. Two of the fundamental components of the epigenome are chromatin structure and covalent modification of the DNA molecule itself by methylation. DNA methylation patterns are sculpted during development and it has been a long held belief that they remain stable after birth in s...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Szyf M,McGowan P,Meaney MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:O6-alkylguanine DNA-alkyltransferase (AGT) is a widely distributed DNA repair protein that protects living organisms from endogenous and exogenous alkylation damage to DNA at the O6-position of guanine. The search of the C. elegans genome database for an AGT protein revealed the presence of a protein (cAGT-2) with som...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Kanugula S,Pegg AE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although not mutagenic by Ames test, 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), a leading biofuel candidate, was found to induce chromosomal damage in cultured murine cells, suggesting that it may be genotoxic. We sought to prioritize the environmental and biological impacts of using DMF as a combustible biofuel. First, we assessed DMF...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Phuong J,Kim S,Thomas R,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected pregnant women are administered nucleoside-analogue antiretrovirals to reduce maternal-infant viral transmission. The current protocol recommends treating newborns for 6 additional weeks postpartum. The treatment is effective, but the risk of drug-induced chromosomal damage ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bishop JB,Witt KL,Tice RR,Wolfe GW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of the relationship between the dose to DNA of a mutagen/carcinogen and in vivo somatic cell mutagenesis may provide information on the mechanisms leading to induced mutational events. This can be achieved, for example, by coupling test systems that permit the detection of somatic mutation and recombina...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zordan M,Osti M,Pavanello S,Costa R,Levis AG

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Respirable crystalline silica has been classified as a human lung carcinogen. Ultrafine (diameter < 100 nm) silica particles may be important in carcinogenesis, although the mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, WIL2-NS cells were incubated for 6, 24, and 48 hr with 0, 30, 60, and 120 microg/ml ultrafine cr...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Wang JJ,Sanderson BJ,Wang H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of inherited mutations as a cause of human disease has been established clearly through examples of well-defined genetic anomalies, such as Down syndrome and retinoblastoma. Furthermore, it is suspected that environmental contaminants induce mutations resulting in increased risk for such defects in subs...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Narod SA,Douglas GR,Nestmann ER,Blakey DH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyl radical scavengers thiourea, ethanol, and dimethyl sulfoxide significantly reduced the killing of Escherichia coli elicited by low concentrations of H2O2 (resulting in mode 1 killing) when treatments with the oxidant and the scavengers were performed in a complete growth medium (K medium) but not in M9 sa...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Brandi G,Salvaggio L,Cattabeni F,Cantoni O

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the mutagens in fumes produced by heating three different cooking oils used in Taiwan to temperatures of 100 degrees C, 200 degrees C, and 300 degrees C, and constructed models to study the efficacy of fume extractors used commonly by Taiwanese women. Particulates of volatile emissions from lard (at 200 d...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Chiang TA,Wu PF,Ko YC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative damage (lipid peroxidation, LPO) induced in a completely defined system containing glutathione (GSH), purified gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), and EDTA- and ADP-chelated ferric iron was enhanced by catalytic amounts of cupric ions and by ceruloplasmin (CP). The enhancement depended on GSH concentration,...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Glass GA,Stark AA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unpublished results from our laboratory showed that colchicine increased the incidence of hyperploid mouse metaphase II (MII) oocytes when injected at the same time as human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). The objective of the present study was to determine whether the time of administering colchicine influenced the in...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mailhes JB,Yuan ZP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of micronucleus (MN) induction and decline in blood normochromatic erythrocytes (NCE) of mice subchronically exposed to benzene was investigated during and after exposure. Swiss (ICR) male mice (10/group) were given 0.0, 36.6, 73.2, and 146.4 mg/kg body weight benzene by gavage daily for 14 days, except f...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Rithidech K,Au WW,Ramanujam VM,Whorton EB Jr,Legator MS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) method was developed to detect aneuploidy and diploidy in epididymal sperm of rats using DNA probes specific for chromosomes 4 and Y. Fourteen healthy young-adult rats from three strains were evaluated: inbred Fisher 344/N/ehs, outbred Sprague-Dawley, and outbred ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Lowe XR,de Stoppelaar JM,Bishop J,Cassel M,Hoebee B,Moore D 2nd,Wyrobek AJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of stable nitroxide free radicals that are used as spin labels have been shown to possess metal-independent superoxide dismutase-like activity. Unlike superoxide dismutase (SOD), these compounds are low molecular weight, and readily penetrate into the cell. A representative nitroxide, 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetrameth...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： DeGraff WG,Krishna MC,Russo A,Mitchell JB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome aberrations can occur by secondary mechanism(s) associated with cytotoxicity, induced by chemicals that do not attack DNA. Aberrations are formed from DNA double-strand breaks, and DSBs are known to be induced by nonmutagenic (Ames test negative) noncarcinogens at toxic levels [Storer et al. (1996): Mutat R...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hilliard CA,Armstrong MJ,Bradt CI,Hill RB,Greenwood SK,Galloway SM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo model Drosophila melanogaster was used here to determine the detrimental effects induced by silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) exposure. The main aim was to explore its interaction with the intestinal barrier and the genotoxic effects induced in hemocytes. The observed effects were compared with those obtained b...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Alaraby M,Romero S,Hernández A,Marcos R

更新日期：2019-04-01 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