The detection and comparison of the genotoxic effects of some nitro aromatic compounds by the umu and SOS chromotest systems

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-68

  Öztürk, Kamile ^a   Durusoy, M übeccel ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Genotoxicity; Nitroarenes; SOS chromotest; umu test

Indexed keywords

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTOXICITY; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOS CHROMOTEST;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARCINOGENS; CINNAMATES; DINITROBENZENES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033618283     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(99)00117-4     Document Type: Article

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