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：: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：:Recent studies suggest increased cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) compared with healthy individuals. The present study aims to assess whether T2DM is associated with increased genome instability and whether a healthy diet with natural foods can improve genome stability in peripheral blood l...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Müllner E,Brath H,Toferer D,Adrigan S,Bulla MT,Stieglmayer R,Wallner M,Marek R,Wagner KH

更新日期：2013-03-01 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 use of DNA adduct analysis has previously focused on the use of marine organisms for biomonitoring, whereas similar investigations in freshwater organisms are sparse. In that context, we have investigated the relevance of DNA adducts as biomarkers of genotoxicity in the freshwater mussels Dreissena polymorpha. The...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Châtel A,Faucet-Marquis V,Perret M,Gourlay-Francé C,Uher E,Pfohl-Leszkowicz A,Vincent-Hubert F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mono-culture of cells have shown that diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress-related damage to DNA. However, the level of particle-generated genotoxicity may depend on interplay between different cell types, e.g. lung epithelium and immu...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Jantzen K,Roursgaard M,Desler C,Loft S,Rasmussen LJ,Møller P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide with a low 5-year survival (S5y) after initial diagnosis. Although aberrant Wnt/β-catenin (CTNNB1) signaling has been observed in multiple human cancers, there is no information on the role of CTNNB1 polymorphisms in gastric cancer ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Wang S,Tian Y,Wu D,Zhu H,Luo D,Gong W,Zhou Y,Zhou J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for micronuclei (MN) in binucleated cells is not always the best choice to recognize microtubule-perturbing agents, as they give rise to (micronucleated) mononucleated cells, mainly via mitotic slippage. We therefore treated peripheral lymphocytes with vincristine (VCR), nocodazole (NOC) and colcemid (COL):...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Guccini S,Lombardi S,Pisani A,Piaggi S,Scarpato R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborns have to cope with hypoxia during delivery and a sudden increase in oxygen at birth. Oxygen will partly be released as reactive oxygen species having the potential to cause damage to DNA and proteins. In utero, increase of most (non)-enzymatic antioxidants occurs during last weeks of gestation, making preterm ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Vande Loock K,Ciardelli R,Decordier I,Plas G,Haumont D,Kirsch-Volders M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamins with antioxidant properties have the ability to act as pro-oxidants, inducing oxidative damage and oxidative stress as opposed to preventing it. While vitamin supplements are commonly consumed, the scientific evidence for their health beneficial effects is inconclusive. In fact, even harmful effects have been...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bergström T,Ersson C,Bergman J,Möller L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ser326Cys polymorphism in the human 8-oxogunaine DNA glycosylase (hOGG1) gene had been implicated in cancer susceptibility. Studies investigating the associations between the Ser326Cys polymorphism and cancer susceptibility showed conflicting results. To derive a more precise estimation of the relationship, a meta...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Wang W,Wang M,Chen Y,Zhang Z,Wang S,Xu M,Wang B,Zhao Q,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their prime candidate status, polymorphisms near genes involved in DNA repair or in other functions related to genome stability have been conspicuously under-represented in the significant associations reported from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of cancer susceptibility. In this study, we assessed a s...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Tomlinson IP,Houlston RS,Montgomery GW,Sieber OM,Dunlop MG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of topoisomerase II inhibitor, teniposide, to induce aneuploidy and meiotic delay in somatic and germinal cells of male mice was investigated by fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) assay using labelled DNA probes and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation assay, respectively. Colchicine and mit...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Attia SM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell transformation assays (CTAs) have long been proposed as in vitro methods for the identification of potential chemical carcinogens. Despite showing good correlation with rodent bioassay data, concerns over the subjective nature of using morphological criteria for identifying transformed cells and a lack of underst...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Creton S,Aardema MJ,Carmichael PL,Harvey JS,Martin FL,Newbold RF,O'Donovan MR,Pant K,Poth A,Sakai A,Sasaki K,Scott AD,Schechtman LM,Shen RR,Tanaka N,Yasaei H

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Cyclooxygenase 2 (Cox-2, a rate-limiting enzyme in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostanoids) has been implicated in several physiological and pathological processes, and it has been reported that polymorphisms in the regulatory region of Cox-2 might influence its expression, contributing to the interindividua...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Tang Z,Nie ZL,Pan Y,Zhang L,Gao L,Zhang Q,Qu L,He B,Song G,Zhang Y,Shukui Wang

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified several antineoplastic drugs in Group 1 (human carcinogens), among which chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide (CP) and tamoxifen, Group 2A (probable human carcinogens), among which cisplatin, etoposide, N-ethyl- and N-methyl-N-nitrosourea, and Group 2B (possible...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Villarini M,Dominici L,Piccinini R,Fatigoni C,Ambrogi M,Curti G,Morucci P,Muzi G,Monarca S,Moretti M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, a number of case-control studies have been carried out to investigate the relationship between the HHEX polymorphism and type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the results have been inconclusive. To investigate this inconsistency, we performed a meta-analysis of all available studies dealing with the rela...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Cai Y,Yi J,Ma Y,Fu D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokinesis-block micronucleus cytome (CBMNCyt) assay is a widely used technique for measuring DNA damage in human populations. The formation of micronuclei (MN) in dividing cells can result from chromosome breakage due to unrepaired or mis-repaired DNA lesions or chromosome malsegregation due to mitotic malfuncti...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Dhillon VS,Thomas P,Iarmarcovai G,Kirsch-Volders M,Bonassi S,Fenech M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The micronucleus test (MNT) is a well-established assay in genotoxicity testing and human biomonitoring. The cytokinesis-block micronucleus test (CBMNT) is the preferred method for measuring MN in cultured human lymphocytes from human subjects exposed to genotoxins. However, it is unclear to what extent mutagen exposu...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Speit G,Zeller J,Neuss S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicological relevance of the micronucleus (MN) test is well defined: it is a multi-target genotoxic endpoint, assessing not only clastogenic and aneugenic events but also some epigenetic effects, which is simple to score, accurate, applicable in different cell types. In addition, it is predictive for cancer, ame...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Kirsch-Volders M,Decordier I,Elhajouji A,Plas G,Aardema MJ,Fenech M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many chemical carcinogens require metabolic activation to form genotoxic compounds in human. Standard in vitro genotoxicity assays performed with activation systems, such as rat liver S9, are recognised to lead to a high number of false positives. The aim of this study was to evaluate the suitability of differentiated...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Le Hegarat L,Dumont J,Josse R,Huet S,Lanceleur R,Mourot A,Poul JM,Guguen-Guillouzo C,Guillouzo A,Fessard V

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-established in vitro methods for testing the genotoxic potency of chemicals--such as the Ames/Salmonella test, the mouse lymphoma assay, the micronucleus test and the chromosomal aberration test--show a high false-positive rate for predicting in vivo genotoxicity and carcinogenicity. Thus, there is a need for mor...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Mathijs K,Brauers KJ,Jennen DG,Lizarraga D,Kleinjans JC,van Delft JH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring oxidative stress in vivo is made easier by the ability to use samples obtained non-invasively, such as urine. The analysis of DNA oxidation, by measurement of oxidized 2'-deoxyribonucleosides in urine, particularly 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), has been reported extensively in the literatur...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Evans MD,Saparbaev M,Cooke MS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo genotoxicity studies-shortly followed by carcinogenicity-are posing high demand for test-related recourses in terms of animal lives and resources. Among those, the micronucleus test in rodents is the most widely used as a follow-up to positive in vitro mutagenicity results; therefore, the development and exten...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Benigni R,Bossa C,Worth A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced bystander effects have been evaluated extensively, including the involvement of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. However, few studies have examined the ability of chemicals to induce bystander effects, and the molecular mechanisms involved in chemical bystander effects have not b...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Asur R,Balasubramaniam M,Marples B,Thomas RA,Tucker JD

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of localized DNA damage within a discrete nuclear volume is an important tool in DNA repair studies. Both charged particle irradiation and laser microirradiation (LMI) systems allow for such a localized damage induction, but the results obtained are difficult to compare, as the delivered laser dose canno...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Splinter J,Jakob B,Lang M,Yano K,Engelhardt J,Hell SW,Chen DJ,Durante M,Taucher-Scholz G

更新日期：2010-05-01 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 objective of the present study was to develop a cellular phenotype assay for nucleotide excision repair (NER), using benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) as model mutagen. Since in vitro exposure to BPDE may lead to DNA strand breaks resulting from both direct interaction with DNA and incisions introduced by the rep...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Vande Loock K,Decordier I,Ciardelli R,Haumont D,Kirsch-Volders M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published data regarding the association between the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) T1349G (Asp148Glu) polymorphism and cancer risk show inconclusive results. To derive a more precise estimation of the relationship, we performed a meta-analysis of 27 published studies that included 12 432 cancer cases and...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Gu D,Wang M,Wang M,Zhang Z,Chen J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel nanomaterials with unique physico-chemical properties is increasing at a rapid rate, with potential applications across a broad range of manufacturing industries and consumer products. Nanomaterial safety is therefore becoming an increasingly contentious issue that has intensified over the pas...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Doak SH,Griffiths SM,Manshian B,Singh N,Williams PM,Brown AP,Jenkins GJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol drinking-derived acetaldehyde is believed to cross-link DNA and induce sister chromatid exchanges in peripheral blood lymphocytes. However, little population data are available to illustrate effects of alcohol-derived acetaldehyde on DNA migration as assayed by the comet assay in peripheral lymphocytes. In the...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Lu Y,Morimoto K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barrett's oesophagus (BO) carries an increased risk of progression to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Chromoendoscopy with methylene blue (MB) can be used to facilitate identification of BO and target areas for biopsy. If photoexcited, MB can generate reactive oxygen species and genotoxic photodegradation products leading...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Sturmey RG,Wild CP,Hardie LJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of diet in DNA damage prevention is well established; however, the comparison of weight loss diets with different micronutrient and macronutrient profiles on genome stability in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) has not been studied. This study tested the hypothesis that genome stability in PBLs of ov...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Benassi-Evans B,Clifton PM,Noakes M,Keogh JB,Fenech M

更新日期：2009-05-01 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 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：:A perceived disadvantage of transgenic rodent mutation assays is that spontaneous mutant frequencies are high compared to those of endogenous genes and may consequently reduce sensitivity to induced mutation. We have previously argued that unrepaired G:T mismatches from spontaneous deamination of 5-methylcytosine at C...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Valentine CR,Rainey HF,Farrell JM,Shaddock JG,Dobrovolsky VN,Delongchamp RR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a new method for the study of radiation-induced chromatid breaks in stimulated human peripheral blood T lymphocytes, involving a combination of a 1-h colcemid block and a short (15 min) calyculin A treatment. We find that this procedure eliminates the problem of centromere splitting when calyculin A is us...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Shovman O,Riches AC,Adamson D,Bryant PE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection from chronic exposure to cosmic radiation, which is primarily composed of protons, in future manned missions to Mars and beyond is considered to be a key unresolved issue. To model the effects of cosmic radiation on a living cell, we used Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells harboring various deletions of DNA rep...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Rostek C,Turner EL,Robbins M,Rightnar S,Xiao W,Obenaus A,Harkness TA

更新日期：2008-03-01 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