Synergistic/comutagenic action in the Ames test as an indication of irrelevant positive findings

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-57

  Gocke, Elmar ^a   Albertini, Silvio ^a  

^a F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artifact; False positive; S. typhimurium

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; TYPHIMURIUM;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; HISTIDINE; KANAMYCIN; METHAPYRILENE; PHENOBARBITAL; REMIKIREN; SODIUM AZIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

AMES TEST; ARTIFACT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENOTOXICITY; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTHRACENES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZIDES; CARCINOGENS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HISTIDINE; METHAPYRILENE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; PHENOBARBITAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SODIUM AZIDE;

EID: 0030070431     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(95)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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