A preliminary evaluation of the performance of the Muta Mouse (lacZ) and Big Blue (lacI) transgenic mouse mutation assays.

abstract：:The XPF and ERCC1 proteins form a tight complex and function as an endonuclease to incise on the 5'-side of pyrimidine dimers in DNA. Levels of both proteins are extremely low in group F xeroderma pigmentosum (XP-F) cells. We transfected XP-F cells with the plasmids expressing XPF or ERCC1 and examined levels of both ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Yagi T,Katsuya A,Koyano A,Takebe H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism responsible for the modification of mutagenicity by chlorophyllin has been investigated using mutagenic compounds with different mechanisms of action, including the monofunctional alkylating agents, N-methyl-N'-nitrosourea (MNU) and ethylmethanesulphonate (EMS); nitrosamines related to tobacco products, ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Romert L,Curvall M,Jenssen D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of the seventh amendment to the EU Cosmetics Directive has driven much research into suitable in vitro alternative assays to support satisfactory risk assessments. One such assay is the reconstructed skin micronucleus (RSMN) assay. First reported in 2006, further development occurred and a standard prot...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Kidd D,Phillips S,Chirom T,Mason N,Smith R,Saul J,Whitwell J,Clements J

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a two dose/single-sample protocol for the in vivo/in vitro rat hepatocyte unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay. In order to enhance the effectiveness of grain detection by image analysis we found minor technical modifications to be beneficial. These included the use of 3% acetic acid in ethanol (or ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Amphlett NW,Mitchell ID,Rees RW,Haynes GA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human lymphocyte micronucleus (MN) test combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of a centromeric probe is considered a useful screening assay to distinguish between clastogenic and aneugenic agents. Four suspected aneuploidy-inducing chemicals, acetaldehyde (AA), diethylstilbestrol (DES), diethylst...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Migliore L,Cocchi L,Scarpato R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are fibrous carbon-based nanomaterials with a potential to cause carcinogenesis in humans. Alterations in DNA methylation on cytosine-phosphate-guanidine (CpG) sites are potential markers of exposure-induced carcinogenesis. This study examined cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and DNA methylation alte...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Öner D,Moisse M,Ghosh M,Duca RC,Poels K,Luyts K,Putzeys E,Cokic SM,Van Landuyt K,Vanoirbeek J,Lambrechts D,Godderis L,Hoet PH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anaemia (FA) patients show cellular sensitivity to a variety of clastogens and prominently to cross-linking agents. Although there is a long-standing clinical impression of radiosensitivity, in vitro studies have yielded conflicting results. In this study, initial radiation-induced DNA damage and kinetics of D...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Mohseni-Meybodi A,Mozdarani H,Mozdarani S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic damage in workers occupationally exposed to an antineoplastic drug was studied using the micronucleus (MN) test, the comet assay, the hprt gene mutation assay and the TCR gene mutation assay. The subjects were divided into two groups: (i) 21 workers from a plant producing methotrexate (MTX); (ii) 21 controls w...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Deng H,Zhang M,He J,Wu W,Jin L,Zheng W,Lou J,Wang B

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations has been proposed as an underlying cause of the ageing process and mutations have been associated with cancer in many tissues, including human skin. This involvement is linked to the key roles of mitochondrial function and mtDNA in oxidative stress production and...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Birch-Machin MA,Swalwell H

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymidine kinase-deficient subclone, 707BUF, of the Friend murine leukaemia cell line exhibits increased sensitivity to the induction of cytogenetic aberrations by mitomycin C (MMC) relative to wild-type clone 707. It has been suggested that thymidine kinase-deficient cells may be highly mutagen-sensitive through ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： McKelvey VJ,McKenna PG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many chronic inflammatory conditions are associated with an increased risk of cancer development. At the site of inflammation, cellular DNA is damaged by hypochlorous acid (HOCl), a potent oxidant generated by myeloperoxidase. 8-Chloro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-Cl-dG) is a major DNA adduct formed by HOCl and has been detec...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Sassa A,Kamoshita N,Matsuda T,Ishii Y,Kuraoka I,Nohmi T,Ohta T,Honma M,Yasui M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repairability during G(1) of DNA lesions eliciting sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) induced by methylmethanesulfonate (MMS) and ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS) in BrdU-substituted and unsubstituted DNA strands was determined in murine salivary gland cells in vivo. The SCE frequency was determined after exposure to MMS...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： González-Beltrán F,Morales-Ramírez P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of salts of 27 elements on recombination and on the production of disomic and/or diploid spores during meiosis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been investigated. Be(NO3)2, MgSO4, FeSO4, CuSO4, AgNO3, Na2HAsO4 were inactive on the events studied during meiotic cell division. AuCl4, CdCl2, C4H6O4Pb, SnCl2, K...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Sora S,Agostoni Carbone ML,Pacciarini M,Magni GE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (nitro-PAHs) are mutagenic and carcinogenic environmental pollutants found in diesel exhaust and on urban air pollution particles. In the present study, human bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells were exposed to 2-nitrobenzanthrone (2-NBA) and 3-nitrobenzanthrone (3-NBA). DNA damag...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Oya E,Ovrevik J,Arlt VM,Nagy E,Phillips DH,Holme JA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The micronucleus assay (MN assay) is a well-established assay in genetic toxicology, biomonitoring of mutagen-exposed populations and chromosomal radiosensitivity testing. To evaluate the effect of storage time on the chromosomal radiosensitivity assessment in lymphocytes, micronuclei (MN) yields in blood samples rece...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Baeyens A,Herd O,Francies FZ,Cairns A,Katzman G,Murdoch M,Padiachy D,Morford M,Vral A,Slabbert JP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrocyclic polyethers (crown ethers) are a family of compounds which possess the ability to transport ionic species across natural and artificial membranes. Because of this characteristic, they have wide applications in industry and are being investigated for their potential as pharmacologic agents. However, these co...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Arenaz P,Bitticks L,Pannell K,Garcia S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CI Solvent Yellow 14 has been reported to be carcinogenic in the rat, inducing neoplastic liver nodules, but non-carcinogenic in the mouse. The present experiments have extended previously reported investigations on the activity of CI Solvent Yellow 14 in in vivo genotoxicity assays. CI Solvent Yellow 14 has been exam...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Elliott BM,Griffiths K,Mackay JM,Wade JD

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of the Escherichia coli tester strains in the WP3101P-WP3106P series contains an F' plasmid with a different base substitution mutation within the lacZ gene. Each of the six possible base substitution mutations, therefore, can be assayed with these strains by Lac(+) reversion. We used the strains to characterize ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Ohta T,Watanabe-Akanuma M,Yamagata H

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a sample of healthy subjects (23-59 years old), comprising 49 non-smokers and 23 smokers, we studied the effects of smoking on DNA repair synthesis (UDS) in peripheral lymphocytes. DNA repair after UV-irradiation was measured by [3H]TdR incorporation into DNA (semi-conservative synthesis was inhibited by hydroxyure...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Celotti L,Furlan D,Ferraro P,Levis AG

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of DNA repair enzymes and consequential triggering of aberrant DNA damage response (DDR) pathways are thought to play a pivotal role in genomic instabilities associated with cancer development, and are further thought to be important predictive biomarkers for therapy using the synthetic lethality paradigm....

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Malfatti MC,Antoniali G,Codrich M,Burra S,Mangiapane G,Dalla E,Tell G

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The coat and eye colour mutant beige (bg) leads to the production of distinctive retinal melanocytes with abnormally large pigment granules. Heterozygotes for bg were given 2 Gy acute X-irradiation at various times between day 11.5 of fetal life and 3 days after birth, at which age whole mounts were prepared of the re...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Stephenson DA,Searle AG

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectrum of 100 mutations in the endogenous hprt gene of the human lymphoblastoid TK6 cell line is presented. The majority of the mutations originates in sequences outside the coding region of the gene. Large deletions are a major cause of inactivation of the hprt gene (57% of the mutants). Mutations in the splice s...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Lichtenauer-Kaligis EG,Thijssen JC,den Dulk H,van de Putte P,Giphart-Gassler M,Tasseron-de Jong JG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood dust is recognised as a human carcinogen, based on the strong association of wood dust exposure and the elevated risk of malignant tumours of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses [sino-nasal cancer (SNC)]. The study aimed to assess genetic damage in workers exposed to wood dust using biomarkers in both buccal a...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bruschweiler ED,Hopf NB,Wild P,Huynh CK,Fenech M,Thomas P,Hor M,Charriere N,Savova-Bianchi D,Danuser B

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clastogenic potential of sodium fluoride was determined both in vitro (using cultured human lymphocytes) and in vivo (using the rat bone-marrow micronucleus test). The incidence of chromosome aberrations in human lymphocyte cultures exposed to 20 or 40 micrograms/ml sodium fluoride (3 and 9% respectively) was sign...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Albanese R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic B6C3F1 and C57BL/6 mice containing a lambda shuttle vector that carries a lacI target and an alpha lacZ reporter gene have been constructed for use in in vivo mutagenesis assays. After chemical treatment of mice carrying the lacI target gene, genomic DNA is isolated and the shuttle vector is recovered by ex...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Mirsalis JC,Provost GS,Matthews CD,Hamner RT,Schindler JE,O'Loughlin KG,MacGregor JT,Short JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic microsomes from rats pretreated with PCB were found to metabolize the food mutagen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo(4,5-b)pyridine (PhIP) to two major metabolites, one of which was identified as the N-hydroxy derivative, 2-hydroxy-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo(4,5-b)pyridine (N-OH-PhIP). This identification w...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Frandsen H,Rasmussen ES,Nielsen PA,Farmer P,Dragsted L,Larsen JC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antineoplastic drug etoposide (ET) inhibits topoisomerase II (topo II) activity by forming a ternary complex (DNA-ET-topo II). This complex prevents the DNA-strand-rejoining activity of topo II and may result in structural chromosome aberrations. Inhibition of topo II activity may also predispose cells to aneuploi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Mailhes JB,Marchetti F,Young D,London SN

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), the major pathway of double-strand break (DSB) repair in mammalian cells, comprises two subpathways: one that requires the three core factors Ku70/80, DNA-PKcs and XRCC4/LigIV (DNA-PK-dependent NHEJ) and the other that is independent of these factors. Using a cell-free NHEJ assay, we...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Kuhfittig-Kulle S,Feldmann E,Odersky A,Kuliczkowska A,Goedecke W,Eggert A,Pfeiffer P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results obtained within the framework of an EU research project aimed at investigating the relationship between occupational exposure to pesticides and the induction of cytogenetic damage. Populations from Greece, Spain, Poland and Hungary, all of them characterised by intensive agricultural ac...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Pastor S,Creus A,Parrón T,Cebulska-Wasilewska A,Siffel C,Piperakis S,Marcos R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adducts of 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (EB) with haemoglobin were monitored in 17 workers from the 1,3-butadiene (BD) production unit of a petrochemical plant and in nine referents employed at the same factory but not exposed to BD. The air concentrations of BD were determined using stationary and personal monitoring. The ambi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Osterman-Golkar S,Peltonen K,Anttinen-Klemetti T,Landin HH,Zorcec V,Sorsa M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00