Measurement and characterization of micronuclei in cultured primary lung cells of mice following inhalation exposure to benzene.

abstract：:We have conducted a randomized trial which investigated the ability of dietary changes (in particular diets rich in cruciferous vegetables and flavonoids), to increase urinary antimutagenicity and inhibit DNA damage in smokers. Ninety heavy smokers were recruited and randomly assigned to three groups, and were given t...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Talaska G,Al-Zoughool M,Malaveille C,Fiorini L,Schumann B,Vietas J,Peluso M,Munnia A,Bianchini M,Allegro G,Matullo G,Sacerdote C,Vineis P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenz[a,h]anthracene (DB[a,h]A) is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon that is a by-product of combustion and a potent carcinogen. Few studies have investigated the effects of DB[a,h]A on mRNA and microRNA expression to dissect the mechanisms involved in carcinogenesis. In this study, mature male mice (Muta(™)Mouse) we...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Malik AI,Rowan-Carroll A,Williams A,Lemieux CL,Long AS,Arlt VM,Phillips DH,White PA,Yauk CL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized six SV40-transformed xeroderma pigmentosum cell lines (XP20S and XP12BE derived from female donors, XP12RO-SV, XP3BR/12SV, XP4PA-SV and XP8CAC-SV from male donors) for their usability in HPRT mutation studies. All cell lines exhibit hypersensitivity, compared with MRC5CV1 cells, towards the cytot...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Merk O,Speit G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FD&C Red No.3 (erythrosine) has been used as a dye in foods, drugs and cosmetics since its approval by the US Department of Agriculture in 1907. In 1977 the Certified Color Manufacturers' Association (CCMA) initiated studies on FD&C Red No.3 including chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies in rats and mice. Data...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Lin GH,Brusick DJ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of the elderly with a complex etiology due to the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. At least 15% of cases are inherited as an autosomal dominant mutation, but the majority are sporadic. We evaluated cytogenetic alterations, both spontaneous ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Trippi F,Botto N,Scarpato R,Petrozzi L,Bonuccelli U,Latorraca S,Sorbi S,Migliore L

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the relative importance of DNA methylation-directed repair of replication errors to the production of mutation/gene rearrangements in mammalian cells with hypomethylated genomes. Using a series of sibling (Chinese hamster derived) cell clones with stably altered DNA methylation levels, we found th...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Diver WP,Woodcock DM

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that UVC irradiation of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE)-adducted DNA (BPDE/UVC) induces an increase in mutation frequency in the supF gene greater than the calculated additive value derived from either treatment alone, with a greater absolute increase in the level of BPDE signature transver...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： McLuckie KI,Gaskell M,Farmer PB,Martin EA,Jones GD,Routledge MN

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Cyclophosphamide (CP)-induced micronuclei were evaluated in females of two strains of mice (C57BL and CD1), in F1 hybrid females and in fetuses (day 13 of gestation) obtained from different crosses. F1 adult hybrids from a cross between the strain with a high level of induced micronuclei (C57BL) and the strain with a ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Barale R,Migliore L,Zucconi D,Ciranni R,Casini D,Carducci A,Loprieno N

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human metabolome-the complement of small molecule metabolites present in biofluids and tissues-represents a significant part of the internal chemical milieu and is therefore an important aspect of the human exposome. Metabolic profiling approaches, commonly referred to as metabonomics or metabolomics, permit detai...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Athersuch TJ,Keun HC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MT) specific activity (fmol/mg protein) was measured in human T lymphocytes which were maintained as exponentially growing cultures from 6 to 17 days. The T lymphocytes were not transformed and were grown under the same conditions used previously for determination of spontaneous...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bartlett JD,Robison SH

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inter-individual differences in susceptibility to breast cancer are partially mediated through the levels of endogenous and exogenous steroid hormones. The CYP17 gene encodes P450c17alpha, an enzyme that is involved in the metabolism of steroid hormones. Increased endogenous steroid hormone levels have been associated...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Ye Z,Parry JM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent problems with the supply of Difco bacto agar have forced some laboratories to evaluate alternative agars for use in the Salmonella/microsome assay. This led to the independent observation in two laboratories (Boots and Glaxo) that Salmonella typhimurium TA97a is sensitive to certain types of agar that may be us...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Wilcox P,Wedd DJ,Williams WR,Mee CD,O'Donovan MR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature is an attractive source of therapeutic compounds. In comparison to the artificial drugs, natural compounds cause less adverse side effects and are suitable for current molecularly oriented approaches to drug development and their mutual combining. Medicinal plants represent one of the most available remedy agai...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Horváthová E,Srančíková A,Regendová-Sedláčková E,Melušová M,Meluš V,Netriová J,Krajčovičová Z,Slameňová D,Pastorek M,Kozics K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A working party was set up by the UK Environmental Mutagen Society to consider alternatives to Aroclor 1254 (Aroclor)-induced S9 in in vitro genotoxicity assays, with the aims of considering whether a replacement for Aroclor in its role in general screening assays could be readily identified. The working party conclud...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Elliott BM,Combes RD,Elcombe CR,Gatehouse DG,Gibson GG,Mackay JM,Wolf RC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mre11 complex (Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1) is involved in a diverse array of DNA metabolic processes including the response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). The structure of Rad50 plays a key role in the DNA-binding and end-bridging activity of the complex. An interesting feature within the central portion of the Rad50 p...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Cahill D,Carney JP

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:The revertibility of three spontaneous hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT)-deficient V79 cell lines has been determined after exposure to a number of alkylating agents. TG11 and 19 reverted at frequencies ranging from 1 X 10(-5) to 1 X 10(-4) after exposure to doses of ethylmethane sulphonate (EMS) N-methyl...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Fox M,Rossiter BJ,Brennand J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of optimizing the efficiency of S9 fractions used in in vitro mutagenicity assays, different schemes for the induction of liver enzymes in rats were tried and the amount of S9 fraction required was assessed. The activity of 2-anthramine (2AA), 2-acetylaminofluorene (2AAF), 3-methylcholanthrene (3MTCL) and...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： García Franco S,Domínguez G,Pico JC

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relatively large, reproducible inter-individual variation was found in the ability of 17 human liver S9 samples to mediate the mutagenicity of 2-acetylaminofluorene (2AAF) in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98. In an animal model, variation in metabolic activation of 2AAF did not appear to relate to the phenotype of...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Smith AJ,Chipman JK

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an investigation of the long-term effects of a shift from a mixed diet to a lacto-vegetarian diet and of a return to a mixed diet on the mutagenic activity in urine and faeces. The participants were 20 normal weight, non-smoking subjects. Dietary surveys and urinary and faecal samples were collected before and...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Johansson G,Holmén A,Persson L,Högstedt B,Wassén C,Ottova L,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past four years several livestock farms (sheep, cattle and river buffalo) in the provinces of Naples and Caserta (southern Italy) have been unable to sell their milk and other dairy products due to the levels of dioxins (17 different types) present in the milk mass exceeding the value permitted [3 pg/g of f...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Perucatti A,Di Meo GP,Albarella S,Ciotola F,Incarnato D,Jambrenghi AC,Peretti V,Vonghia G,Iannuzzi L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to ambient air particles is associated with elevated levels of DNA strand breaks (SBs) and endonuclease III, formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (FPG) and oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-sensitive sites in cell cultures, animals and humans. In both animals and cell cultures, increases in SB and in oxidatively dama...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Møller P,Hemmingsen JG,Jensen DM,Danielsen PH,Karottki DG,Jantzen K,Roursgaard M,Cao Y,Kermanizadeh A,Klingberg H,Christophersen DV,Hersoug LG,Loft S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black tea theafulvins, a fraction of thearubigins isolated from black tea aqueous infusions, potentiated the mutagenic activity of the mycotoxin aflatoxin B(1) in the Ames test, in the presence of a hepatic S9 activation system derived from Aroclor 1254-treated rats. In contrast, when the S9 activation system was repl...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Catterall F,Copeland E,Clifford MN,Ioannides C

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swiss albino mice were exposed to formulated cypermethrin (CMR) and/or or chlorpyrifos (CPF) through oral gavages for 60 days. Test doses of CMR (0.69, 1.38 or 2.76mg/kg/day) or CPF (0.5, 1.0 or 2.0mg/kg/day) or CMR + CPF (0.69 + 0.5, 1.38 + 1.0 or 2.76 + 2.0mg/kg/day) were based on the acute oral median lethal doses ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Chauhan LK,Varshney M,Pandey V,Sharma P,Verma VK,Kumar P,Goel SK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy of mouse chromosome 8 induced by a Chinese medicinal herb, Tripterygium hypoglaucum (level) Hutch (THH) was investigated by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in vivo. Male mice were treated with THH (single i.p. injection) at doses of 120, 240 and 480 mg/kg. Colchicine (COL, 1.5 mg/kg i.p.) was used...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Xu W,Ziqing L,Yinrun D,Xiaoyan W,Jinglun X

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial hepatectomy method, co-treatment method with mitogens and an in vivo/in vitro assay method have been reported as in vivo liver micronucleus (MN) assays. These methods have disadvantages with respect to widespread use as an in vivo assay, i.e. they are time consuming, labour intensive and there is the possi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society-Mammalian Mutagenicity Study Group.,Suzuki H,Takasawa H,Kobayashi K,Terashima Y,Shimada Y,Ogawa I,Tanaka J,Imamura T,Miyazaki A,Hayashi M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrocyclic polyethers (crown ethers) are a family of compounds that possess the ability to complex with and transport metal ions across membranes. Because of their unique ionophoric characteristic, they have wide application in industry and research, chemistry and biology. In the current investigation the relationshi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Cai MY,Arenaz P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single-cell gel electrophoresis--the comet assay--has proved to be a sensitive and relatively simple method that is much used in research for the analysis of specific types of DNA damage, and its use in genotoxicity testing is increasing. The efficiency of the comet assay, in terms of number of samples processed p...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Gutzkow KB,Langleite TM,Meier S,Graupner A,Collins AR,Brunborg G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major risk factor for skin cancer is exposure to UV radiation from sunlight, but other environmental exposures may also play a role in combination with UV. We have studied the effects of combined exposure of primary human skin cells in vitro to UVA, UVB or UVC with benzo[a] pyrene (BaP), an environmental carcinoge...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Crallan RA,Ingham E,Routledge MN

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00