Metabolic methylation is a possible genotoxicity-enhancing process of inorganic arsenics

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 394, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 95-101

  Yamanaka, Kenzo ^a   Hayashi, Hirotaka ^a   Tachikawa, Mariko ^a   Kato, Koichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Oku, Naoto ^b   Okada, Shoji ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenite; Dimethylarsinic acid; Inorganic arsenic; L 132 cell; Metabolic methylation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARSENIC POISONING; ARSENICALS; CACODYLIC ACID; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MUTAGENS;

EID: 0031461075     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(97)00130-7     Document Type: Article

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