A functional SNP in the 3'-UTR of TAP2 gene interacts with microRNA hsa-miR-1270 to suppress the gene expression.

abstract：:Classification of micronuclei induced by lomefloxacin, a difluorinated quinolone bactericidal agent, in mouse bone marrow was performed by fluorescence in situ hybridization using DNA probes for the centromere repeated minor satellite DNA and the telomeric hexamer repeat (5'-TTAGGG-3'). Colchicine and mitomycin C were...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Attia SM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used an SV40-based shuttle vector, pZ189, to investigate the capacity of HeLa cell extracts to reproduce the in vivo process of mutation fixation. We showed previously that when UV-irradiated pZ189 is replicated in these extracts, bypass of UV photoproducts occurs, resulting in base substitution mutations in t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Carty MP,el-Saleh S,Zernik-Kobak M,Dixon K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquisition of breast ductal fluid by nipple aspiration and ductal lavage are simple noninvasive procedures to sample breast tissue. Nipple aspiration fluid (NAF) obtained with gentle suction and a simple syringe-adapted apparatus may evaluate the secretory components that bathe the ductal epithelial cells. Evalua...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Klein PM,Lawrence JA

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:Previous population-based studies have identified subject characteristics that, when combined, can account for approximately 20% of the observed interindividual variation in baseline SCE rates. In the present investigation, a classic twin study design was used to address the issue of the relevance of genetic factors t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hirsch BA,Sentz KK,McGue M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polluted soil sampled from a former coking plant in Lorraine (France) was studied for its genotoxicity and reproductive effects on the Eisenia fetida earthworm. Genotoxicity was investigated by means of the single-cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay on the coelomocytes of earthworms after 4 and 10 days of exposure ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bonnard M,Eom IC,Morel JL,Vasseur P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Micronucleus (MN) expression in peripheral blood lymphocytes is well established as a standard method for monitoring chromosome damage in human populations. The first results of an analysis of pooled data from laboratories using the cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay and participating in the HUMN (HUman Micro...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bonassi S,Fenech M,Lando C,Lin YP,Ceppi M,Chang WP,Holland N,Kirsch-Volders M,Zeiger E,Ban S,Barale R,Bigatti MP,Bolognesi C,Jia C,Di Giorgio M,Ferguson LR,Fucic A,Lima OG,Hrelia P,Krishnaja AP,Lee TK,Migliore L

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：:Molindone hydrochloride is a dihydroindolone neuroleptic with dopamine D2 and D5 receptor antagonist activity. As an integral component of its preclinical safety evaluation, molindone hydrochloride was evaluated in a series of in vitro and in vivo genetic toxicology assays. In the bacterial reverse gene mutation assay...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Krishna G,Gopalakrishnan G,Goel S

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:311 chemicals were tested under code, for mutagenicity, in Salmonella typhimurium; 35 of the chemicals were tested more than once in the same or different laboratories. The tests were conducted using a preincubation protocol in the absence of exogenous metabolic activation, and in the presence of liver S-9 from Aroclo...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zeiger E,Anderson B,Haworth S,Lawlor T,Mortelmans K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzene is an important industrial chemical and widespread environmental pollutant known to induce leukemia and other blood disorders. To be carcinogenic, benzene must be metabolized to produce toxic metabolites. To investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the metabolic enzyme genes are associated...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Xing C,Chen Q,Li G,Zhang L,Zheng M,Zou Z,Hou L,Wang QF,Liu X,Guo X

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:A transplacental carcinogenicity study was conducted by exposing pregnant Swiss (CD-1) mice to 0, 50, 100, 200, or 300 mg 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT)/kg body weight (BW) daily for the duration of gestation (18-19 days) [National Toxicology Program,2006]. The incidence of alveolar/bronchiolar adenomas and carcinom...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Koujitani T,Ton TV,Lahousse SA,Hong HH,Wakamatsu N,Sills RC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome is essential for producing ATP (adenosine 5'-triphosphate) via oxidative phosphorylation. The gradual decline of mitochondrial function with age has long been postulated as a factor in aging. More recently, a variety of diseases have been related to molecular defects in human mitochondrial DNA...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Grossman LI

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead is a widely existing environmental pollutant with potential carcinogenicity. To investigate the association of blood lead level (B-Pb) with potential chromosomal damage and cancer, we analyzed micronucleus (MN) frequency of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) and the methylation status of six human tumor suppress...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yu LB,Tu YT,Huang JW,Zhang YN,Zheng GQ,Xu XW,Wang JW,Xiao JQ,Christiani DC,Xia ZL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to inorganic arsenic increases the risk of basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Arsenic metabolism is a susceptibility factor for arsenic toxicity, and specific haplotypes in arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltransferase (AS3MT) have been associated with increased urinary fractions of the most toxic arsenic metabolit...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Engström KS,Vahter M,Fletcher T,Leonardi G,Goessler W,Gurzau E,Koppova K,Rudnai P,Kumar R,Broberg K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 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：:During the development of cancer a series of specific genetic alterations have to occur in a stepwise fashion to transform a normal somatic cell into a malignant tumor cell. These genetic changes can be roughly divided in two groups: mutations in proto-oncogenes that result in a constantly activated gene product and m...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Vrieling H,Wijnhoven S,van Sloun P,Kool H,Giphart-Gassler M,van Zeeland A

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:In this study we evaluated the antigenotoxic and cytoprotective capabilities of WR-2721 [S-2-(3-aminopropylamino)-ethylphosphorothioic acid (amifostine)] in different normal tissues of BALB/c mice treated with idarubicin [4-demethoxydaunorubicin (IDA)]. The aminothiol WR-2721 is a pro-drug that requires dephosphorylat...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： de Campos Nebel M,Larripa I,González-Cid M

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Radiation and many chemicals have been found to induce homologous genetic recombination. Experimental systems that allow the detection and characterization of recombinagens exist in organisms as diverse as bacteria, fungi, plants, insects, and mammals. Recombination plays an important role in many biological processes...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hoffmann GR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umu test is one of the in vitro genotoxicity test that has been used widely. It was developed as a high-throughput test system using the 96-well microplate. We have previously constructed new umu test strains for the evaluation of genotoxicity of procarcinogenic metabolic products formed by cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzym...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hori H,Hirata D,Fujii W,Oda Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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