Reduction of benzene toxicity by toluene.

abstract：:Genomes of all living organisms are constantly threatened by endogenous and exogenous agents that challenge the chemical integrity of DNA. Most bacteria have evolved a coordinated response to DNA damage. In Escherichia coli, this inducible system is termed the SOS response. The SOS global regulatory network consists o...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Maslowska KH,Makiela-Dzbenska K,Fijalkowska IJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:We review our studies on the role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-DNA adducts in breast cancer. Additionally we report on analyses of the reliability of the scoring procedures used with immunohistochemical assay for PAH-DNA adducts and of potential bias arising from the use of benign breast disease (BBD) cont...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Rundle A,Tang D,Hibshoosh H,Schnabel F,Kelly A,Levine R,Zhou J,Link B,Perera F

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Cigarette smoking leads to various detrimental health outcomes. Tobacco companies produce different brands of cigarettes that are marketed as reduced harm tobacco products. Early examples included "light" cigarettes, which differ from regular cigarettes due to filter ventilation and/or differences in chemical constitu...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yauk CL,Williams A,Buick JK,Chen G,Maertens RM,Halappanavar S,White PA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of several methodological factors on mean values of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) and micronuclei (MN) in peripheral lymphocytes of 1,650 subjects was analyzed. Donors belonged to a general healthy population living in Pisa and in two nearby small cities: Cascina and Navacchio (Ca-Na). Blood samples ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Barale R,Marrazzini A,Bacci E,Di Sibio A,Tessa A,Cocchi L,Scarcelli V,Lubrano V,Vassalle C,Landi S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the effects of urban air pollutants on human nasal mucosa over an 8-month period on 102 subjects living in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. A group of subjects living in a city with a lower level of pollution (Sassari, Sardinia, Italy) was also analyzed. Nasal mucosa cells were harvested by brushing, a noninvasi...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Pacini S,Giovannelli L,Gulisano M,Peruzzi B,Polli G,Boddi V,Ruggiero M,Bozzo C,Stomeo F,Fenu G,Pezzatini S,Pitozzi V,Dolara P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that are involved in a number of diverse processes. Most often the mitochondrion is associated with energy generation, but other important processes occur in this organelle such as fatty acid synthesis and amino acid metabolism. Although mitochondria encode less than 40 genes, all o...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Moore A,Golden A

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Clustered damage induced by ionizing radiation--two or more oxidized bases, abasic sites, or strand breaks within a few DNA helical turns--have been postulated to be major lethal and/or mutagenic sites. Although they have recently been shown to be induced in genomic DNAs by ionizing photons and particles, little is kn...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Sutherland BM,Bennett PV,Weinert E,Sidorkina O,Laval J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Big Blue Rat-2 cells were evaluated for mutagenesis and mutational spectra (spontaneous and ethylnitrosourea [ENU]-induced). Survival, mutant frequency, population doubling time, and kinetics of mutant increase (to 120 hr) were determined. Exposures were 100, 200, 400, 600, and 1,000 micrograms ENU/ml. The spontaneous...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zimmer DM,Zhang XB,Harbach PR,Mayo JK,Aaron CS

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:The human transcriptome is complex, comprising multiple transcript types, mostly in the form of non-coding RNA (ncRNA). The majority of ncRNA is of the long form (lncRNA, ≥ 200 bp), which plays an important role in gene regulation through multiple mechanisms including epigenetics, chromatin modification, control of tr...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： McHale CM,Zhang L,Thomas R,Smith MT

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbation of DNA replication by chemical-DNA adducts produced by exposure to mutagenic/carcinogenic chemicals results in mutagenic or cytotoxic damage in the DNA. Demonstration of a correlation between cell cycle dependency of cytotoxicity and point mutation at the Na+/K+ ATPase gene could suggest that the two cons...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Smith GJ,Grisham JW,Bentley KS

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:N-Hydroxymethylacrylamide (NHMA), a mouse carcinogen inactive in the Salmonella assay and mouse micronucleus (MN) assay, was tested for reproductive effects in a mouse continuous breeding study. In that study, increased embryonic deaths were observed after 13 weeks exposure of parental animals to NHMA via drinking wat...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Witt KL,Hughes LA,Burka LT,McFee AF,Mathews JM,Black SL,Bishop JB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction and nature of mutations in the lacI transgene were evaluated in multiple tissues after exposure of adult male B6C3F1 lacI transgenic mice to cyclophosphamide (CP). Mice were given a single i.p. injection of 25 mg CP/kg, 100 mg CP/kg, or vehicle (PBS) and then necropsied 6 weeks after treatment to allow D...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Gorelick NJ,Andrews JL,deBoer JG,Young R,Gibson DP,Walker VE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk estimates for radiation-induced cancer in humans are based on epidemiological data largely drawn from the Japanese atomic bomb survivor studies, which received an acute high dose rate (HDR) ionising radiation. Limited knowledge exists about the effects of chronic low dose rate (LDR) exposure, particularly with re...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Graupner A,Eide DM,Brede DA,Ellender M,Lindbo Hansen E,Oughton DH,Bouffler SD,Brunborg G,Olsen AK

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple procedure for the micronucleus test (MNT) in vitro using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells was established in our laboratory. The assay is intended to quickly screen chromosomal aberrations in vitro within the framework of industrial genotoxicity studies. To test the sensitivity of the assay in the ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Miller BM,Pujadas E,Gocke E

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:It is estimated that 15% of all cancers are etiologically linked to viral infection. Specific cancers including adult T-cell leukemia, hepatocellular carcinoma, and uterine cervical cancer are associated with infection by human T-cell leukemia virus type I, hepatitis B virus, and high-risk human papilloma virus, respe...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Gatza ML,Chandhasin C,Ducu RI,Marriott SJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To protect human and ecosystem health, it is necessary to develop sensitive assays and to identify responsive cells and species (and their life stages). In this study, the relative genotoxicity of two inorganic arsenicals: trivalent sodium arsenite (As(3+)) and pentavalent sodium arsenate (As(5+)), was evaluated in tw...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Raisuddin S,Jha AN

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Previously, we determined that elimination of deoxycytidylate (dCMP) deaminase (DCD1) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae increases the intracellular dCTP:dTTP ratio and reduces the induction of G x C --> A x T transitions in the SUP4-o gene by ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (M...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Kunz BA,Henson ES,Karthikeyan R,Kuschak T,McQueen SA,Scott CA,Xiao W

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:National and international regulatory agencies historically have used genotoxicity information as part of a weight-of-evidence approach to evaluate potential human carcinogenicity. Additionally, some agencies consider heritable mutation a regulatory endpoint. Furthermore, genotoxicity has the potential to contribute t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Cimino MC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00