Micronuclei formation in somatic cells of mice exposed to 50-Hz electric fields.

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：:The genotoxic responses of mixtures of four chlorohydroxyfuranones (CHFs), 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (MX), 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 compared with the geno...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mäki-Paakkanen J,Komulainen H,Kronberg L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the exposome paradigm all nongenetic factors contributing to disease are considered to be 'environmental' including chemicals, drugs, infectious agents, and psychosocial stress. We can consider these collectively as environmental stressors. Exposomics is the comprehensive analysis of exposure to all environmenta...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Smith MT,de la Rosa R,Daniels SI

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The L5178Y mouse lymphoma cell mutagenesis assay is used to detect the mutagenic activity of chemicals in a mammalian cell system. To evaluate this assay we compared the results of assays performed independently on 63 chemicals by laboratories at SRI International and Litton Bionetics, Inc. The two laboratories used s...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Caspary WJ,Daston DS,Myhr BC,Mitchell AD,Rudd CJ,Lee PS

更新日期：1988-01-01 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 endogenous X-linked PIG-A gene is involved in the synthesis of glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI) anchors that tether specific protein markers to the exterior of mammalian cell cytoplasmic membranes. Earlier studies in rodent models indicate that Pig-a mutant red blood cells (RBCs) can be induced in animals trea...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dobrovolsky VN,Elespuru RK,Bigger CA,Robison TW,Heflich RH

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is a world health problem due to the seriousness of its effects, mainly related with the increase of cancer. In Chile, the geological characteristics of the northern region, associated with the development of the copper mining and smelting activities, have contributed to increase the environmental levels of ar...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Paiva L,Martínez V,Creus A,Quinteros D,Marcos R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mutation process and how it impacts target populations has deepened steadily during the hundred years since 1919. Recent advances in engineering genetically determined social traits points towards the logical culmination of this knowledge. ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Drake JW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase κ (Pol κ) is a specialized DNA polymerase involved in translesion DNA synthesis. Although its bypass activities across lesions are well characterized in biochemistry, its cellular protective roles against genotoxic insults are still elusive. To better understand the in vivo protective roles, we have est...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Kanemaru Y,Suzuki T,Niimi N,Grúz P,Matsumoto K,Adachi N,Honma M,Nohmi T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding chemically induced changes in mutational spectra can aid in deciphering mechanisms of mutagenesis. In this paper, we propose the use of statistical methods that are based upon the mutation frequency, rather than simple mutant counts which have no relationship to the mutation frequency. These methods have...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Carr GJ,Gorelick NJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of ground water by industrial waste poses potential health hazards for man and his environment. The improper disposal of toxic wastes could allow genotoxic chemicals to percolate into ground waters, and these contaminated ground waters may produce toxicity, including mutation and eventually cancer, in ex...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Chandra S,Chauhan LK,Murthy RC,Gupta SK

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased telomerase expression has been implicated in the pathogenesis of lung cancer and, since the primary cause of lung cancer is smoking, an association between telomerase reactivation and tobacco smoke has been proposed. In this work an investigation has been performed to assess the relationship between tobacco ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Marcon F,Siniscalchi E,Andreoli C,Allione A,Fiorito G,Medda E,Guarrera S,Matullo G,Crebelli R

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To what extent noncovalent chemical-DNA interactions, in particular weak nonbonded DNA intercalation, contribute to genotoxic responses in mammalian cells has not been fully elucidated. Moreover, with the exception of predominantly flat, multiple-fused-ring structures, our ability to predict intercalation ability of n...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Snyder RD,Ewing DE,Hendry LB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 (CYP), glutathione-S-transferase (GST), and N-acetyltransferase (NAT) are crucial for metabolism and clearance of xenobiotics. This study investigated whether CYP, GST, and NAT single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) in patients with Lynch syndrome. The intera...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Kamiza AB,You JF,Wang WC,Tang R,Chang CY,Chien HT,Lai CH,Chiu LL,Lo TP,Hung KY,Hsiung CA,Yeh CC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphine is an important fumigant in the grain industry and has been reported to be genotoxic in occupationally exposed fumigators. This study reports on the effects of phosphine inhalation exposure at up to, and exceeding, occupational relevant levels in a subchronic (0.3, 1.0 and 4.5 ppm, 13 weeks) and a short term...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Barbosa A,Rosinova E,Dempsey J,Bonin AM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy-related leukemia has been a recognized sequela of cancer treatment for decades with "signature" abnormalities of chromosomes 5, 7, and 11 observed in treated patients. Risk to oncology personnel handling anti-cancer agents has also been documented by non-specific measures of genotoxicity in blood and urine. Us...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： McDiarmid MA,Rogers B,Oliver MS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two phenotypic classes of selectable tk-/- mutants have been isolated from the TK6 human lymphoblast cell line; one has a normal growth rate (tkn) relative to the parental cell line; the other has a slow growth rate (tks). Complete karyotypes of metaphase chromosomes were prepared and analyzed from 16 tks mutants (eig...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Kodama Y,Boreiko CJ,Skopek TR,Recio L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron oxide nanoparticles (ION) are gaining importance as diagnostic and therapeutic tool of central nervous system diseases. Although oleic acid-coated ION (O-ION) have been described as stable and biocompatible, their potential neurotoxicity was scarcely evaluated in human nervous cells so far. The primary aim of thi...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Fernández-Bertólez N,Costa C,Brandão F,Duarte JA,Teixeira JP,Pásaro E,Valdiglesias V,Laffon B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ames Salmonella/microsomal assay was employed to test the mutagenicity of some benzamines (aniline, and o- and p-phenylenediamine) and their nitro-derivatives (p-nitroaniline, 2-nitro-p-phenylenediamine, 3- and 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine), using strains TA98 and TA100 and their nitroreductase-deficient mutants, TA...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Chung KT,Murdock CA,Zhou Y,Stevens SE Jr,Li YS,Wei CI,Fernando SY,Chou MW

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:In vitro transcriptional signatures that predict toxicities can facilitate chemical screening. We previously developed a transcriptomic biomarker (known as TGx-28.65) for classifying agents as genotoxic (DNA damaging) and non-genotoxic in human lymphoblastoid TK6 cells. Because TK6 cells do not express cytochrome P450...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yauk CL,Buick JK,Williams A,Swartz CD,Recio L,Li HH,Fornace AJ Jr,Thomson EM,Aubrecht J

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：: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：:The term "the DNA damage response" (DDR) encompasses a sophisticated array of cellular initiatives set in motion as cells are exposed to DNA-damaging events. It has been known for over half a century that all organisms have the ability to restore genomic integrity through DNA repair. More recent discoveries of signal ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Ljungman M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan is metabolized through serotonin, indole, and kynurenine (KN) pathways. Uptake of an excess amount of tryptophan accompanied with vitamin B6 deficiency may result in the accumulation of higher concentrations of metabolites mainly from the KN pathways in the bladder. These metabolites could interact with nit...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Chung KT,Gadupudi GS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments described herein were designed to evaluate the performance characteristics of a flow cytometry-based system that scores the incidence of peripheral blood micronucleated reticulocytes (MN-RETs). These procedures represent the continued refinement of a previously reported anti-CD71-based method (Dertinger et...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dertinger SD,Camphausen K,Macgregor JT,Bishop ME,Torous DK,Avlasevich S,Cairns S,Tometsko CR,Menard C,Muanza T,Chen Y,Miller RK,Cederbrant K,Sandelin K,Pontén I,Bolcsfoldi G

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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