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：:In response to DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and DNA repair are mediated by a TP53 pathway that induces p21(WAF1/Cip1). The chemotherapeutic drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum-II (cisplatin) damages cellular DNA by forming cis-diammineplatinum-N(7)-d[GpG] and cis-diammine-platinum-N(7)-d[ApG] adducts. To in...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： van Gijssel HE,Leil TA,Weinberg WC,Divi RL,Olivero OA,Poirier MC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports showed the protective effect of the synthetic antioxidant butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) against the chromosomal damage induced by bleomycin (BLM), cadmium chloride and potassium dichromate. To test the hypothesis that this effect was exerted by inhibition and/or scavenging of reactive oxygen species ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Grillo CA,Dulout FN

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coleus aromaticus (Benth, Family: Laminaceae), Indian Oregano native to India and Mediterranean, is well known for its medicinal properties. A preliminary study was undertaken to elucidate in vitro free radical scavenging potential and inhibition of lipid peroxidation by C.aromaticus hydroalcoholic extract (CAE). Anti...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Rao BS,Shanbhoge R,Upadhya D,Jagetia GC,Adiga SK,Kumar P,Guruprasad K,Gayathri P

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

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：:A systematic review of the literature has been conducted and studies reporting investigations of genotoxicity biomarkers in pesticide workers have been assessed with view to establishing whether there was evidence for any risk to those using pesticides approved in the United Kingdom. Each of the studies was evaluated ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bull S,Fletcher K,Boobis AR,Battershill JM

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by blepharophimosis, ptosis and epicanthus inversus. Based on the presence and absence of premature ovarian failure, two clinical types have been distinguished. Both types of BPES have been mapped to chromosome ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Tang S,Wang X,Lin L,Sun Y,Wang Y,Yu H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced exchange aberrations are thought to arise as a consequence of misrejoining of free ends of DNA double strand breaks (dsbs). In quiescent mammalian cells this process of misrejoining is prevalently taken up by the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) process. In order to investigate the role of glutathio...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Dutta A,Chakraborty A,Saha A,Ray S,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2005-09-01 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 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

abstract：:Zeocin is a member of the bleomycin/phleomycin family of antibiotics, known to bind and cleave DNA. We established human SK-OV-3 cells that stably express the Zeocin resistance gene (Sh ble) using an ecdysone-inducible mammalian expression system. Surprisingly, our results demonstrated that Zeocin, added in the cultur...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Oliva-Trastoy M,Defais M,Larminat F

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the genotoxicity of lambda-cyhalothrin (LCT) (CAS registry No. 91465-08-06), a pyrethroid insecticide, in bone marrow cells and in colonic crypt epithelial cells of groups of four rats per dose treated in vivo by gavage at doses of 0.8, 3.06 and 6.12 mg/kg body weight (body wt). We measured genoto...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Celik A,Mazmanci B,Camlica Y,Askin A,Cömelekoglu U

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiretroviral therapy for the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) typically includes two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). 3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT, Zidovudine) plus 2'-deoxy-3'-thiacytidine (3TC, Lamivudine) is a combination that is used frequently. The NRTIs are mutagenic nucleoside ana...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Olivero OA,Tejera AM,Fernandez JJ,Taylor BJ,Das S,Divi RL,Poirier MC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced genomic instability in the human B lymphoblastoid cell line TK6 manifests itself as increases in end-to-end chromosome fusions and non-reciprocal chromosome translocations. It is not associated with elevated frequencies of specific locus mutations or other cytogenetic alterations. Previous studies on a limited...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Schwartz JL,Jordan R,Evans HH,Lenarczyk M,Liber HL

更新日期：2004-11-01 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 nucleoside analog zidovudine (3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, AZT), by itself or in combination with other anti- retroviral drugs, is used perinatally to prevent mother to child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. AZT is mutagenic in vitro and mutagenic and carcinogenic when administered to neonatal m...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Von Tungeln LS,Dobrovolsky VN,Bishop ME,Shaddock JG,Heflich RH,Beland FA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human FANCG/XRCC9 gene, which is defective in Fanconi anemia complementation group G (FA-G) cells, was first cloned by genetic complementation of the mitomycin C (MMC) sensitivity of CHO mutant UV40. The CHO NM3 mutant was subsequently assigned to the same complementation group. The parental AA8 CHO cells are hemi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Lamerdin JE,Yamada NA,George JW,Souza B,Christian AT,Jones NJ,Thompson LH

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Due to the very limited transduction capacity of hitherto available vectors, the success of gene therapy of tumours by means of suicide genes has so far essentially depended on the transfer of toxic drug metabolites from transduced (metabolizing) cells to adjacent non-transduced cells via gap junctions (bystander effe...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Thust R,Tomicic MT,Gräbner R,Friedrichs C,Wutzler P,Kaina B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to develop and standardize a cytogenetic approach for evaluation of the mutagenic potential of chemicals that induce cell cycle arrest in the G2 phase. Even though cytogenetic end-points such as sister chromatid exchange (SCE) have been extensively used to indirectly assess the DNA-dam...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Terzoudi GI,Malik SI,Pantelias GE,Margaritis K,Manola K,Makropoulos W

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaesthetics have gained a lot of attention for their potential mutagenic/carcinogenic effects. In the present study we have investigated the genotoxicity of the inhalation anaesthetic sevoflurane on DNA of lymphocytes isolated from 20 patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery. The genotoxicity of the anaesthetic was st...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Alleva R,Tomasetti M,Solenghi MD,Stagni F,Gamberini F,Bassi A,Fornasari PM,Fanelli G,Borghi B

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of deficiency in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) protein Pms2 were investigated using the endogenous mouse Hprt and Tk genes as reporters of intragenic mutation and loss of heterozygosity (LOH). Pms2(-/-)Tk(+/-), Pms2(+/+)Tk(+/-), Pms2(+/-)Tk(+/-) and Pms2(-/-)Tk(-/-) mice were bred from Pms2(+/-)Tk(+/-) mic...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Dobrovolsky VN,McKinzie PB,Shaddock JG,Mittelstaedt RA,Heflich RH,Parsons BL

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Folic acid (FA), the most oxidized and stable form of folate, is commonly used as a dietary supplement and in culture media. FA must be reduced and methylated to become the metabolically active form found in blood and utilized by tissues, i.e. 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MeTHF). 5-MeTHF is the methyl group donor requi...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Wang X,Fenech M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anaemia (FA) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by increased spontaneous and DNA crosslinker-induced chromosome instability, progressive pancytopenia and cancer susceptibility. An increasing number of genes are involved in FA, including the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2. Five of the ...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bogliolo M,Cabré O,Callén E,Castillo V,Creus A,Marcos R,Surrallés J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a well-known differentiation inducer in several myeloid cells, also induces a reversible G(1) arrest in many cell lines. We recently showed that DMSO induces a G(1) phase arrest in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, by restoring contact inhibition and preventing high density-dependent apopto...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Fiore M,Zanier R,Degrassi F

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The old herbal drug aristolochic acid (AA), derived from Aristolochia spp., has been associated with the development of a novel nephropathy, designated aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN), and urothelial cancer in AAN patients. There is clear evidence that the major components of the plant extract AA, aristolochic aci...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Arlt VM,Stiborova M,Schmeiser HH

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potential toxicological interactions of 4-(N-methyl-N-nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) and/or dibutyl phthalate (DBP) with ozone were investigated. Male and female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to ozone (0.5 p.p.m.), NNK (1.0 mg/kg), DBP (5000 p.p.m.) and different combinations of these toxicants 6 h/day for 16,...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Kim MY,Kim YC,Cho MH

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISIS 2302, a phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide with antisense activity against human ICAM-1 mRNA, was evaluated in a battery of tests to assess genotoxic potential. There was no evidence of genotoxicity in three in vitro studies performed: (i) a bacterial reverse mutation test; (ii) a chromosomal aberration test i...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Henry SP,Monteith DK,Matson JE,Mathison BH,Loveday KS,Winegar RA,Matson JE,Lee PS,Riccio ES,Bakke JP,Levin AA

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Deregulation of control of the apoptotic process in Fanconi anaemia (FA) appears to be one of the main features of this disease at the cellular level. We show here that FA cells are resistant to treatments with rhodamine-1,2,3 and doxycycline, which both interfere with mitochondrial functionality by different mechanis...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Bogliolo M,Borghini S,Abbondandolo A,Degan P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:o-Phenylphenol (OPP), a widely used fungicide and antibacterial agent, has been considered to be among the top 10 home and garden pesticides used in the USA. Earlier studies have consistently shown that the sodium salt of OPP (SOPP) causes bladder cancer in male Fischer 344 (F344) rats, whereas OPP has produced variab...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Balakrishnan S,Uppala PT,Rupa DS,Hasegawa L,Eastmond DA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocysticercosis (NCC) has been associated with a high frequency of DNA damage in human circulating lymphocytes and more recently with the development of hematological malignancies. Chronic inflammation, a common feature of helminthic infections, has been proposed to play a key role in carcinogenesis induced by para...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Herrera LA,Rodríguez U,Gebhart E,Ostrosky-Wegman P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several reports demonstrating that aneugens may preferentially affect segregation of particular chromosomes in somatic cells. Much less is known on specific susceptibility of individual chromosomes to non-disjunction in mammalian meiosis in response to chemical exposures. To explore possible chromosome-speci...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Sun F,Yin H,Eichenlaub-Ritter U

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Among the tests used to determine the mutagenic potential of chemicals, the chromosomal aberrations and micronucleus assays play an important role. These tests score either chromosomal structural aberrations at metaphase or micronuclei at interphase. One of the hallmarks of apoptosis is DNA fragmentation into 50-300 k...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Meintières S,Biola A,Pallardy M,Marzin D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a correlation between intestinal cancer and diets high in meat, so fried beef, chicken, lamb, pork and fish were tested for their ability to induce mutations in the small intestine of mice. The mice were bred to be heterozygous at the Dlb-1 locus so that loss of the dominant Dlb-1 b allele by mutation could b...

journal_title：Mutagenesis

authors： Heddle JA,Knize MG,Dawod D,Zhang XB

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00