Evaluation of the SOS/umu-test post-treatment assay for the detection of genotoxic activities of pure compounds and complex environmental mixtures

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 466, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-171

  Hamer, Bojan ^a   Bihari, Nevenka ^a   Reifferscheid, Georg ^b   Zahn, Rudolf K ^b   Muller W E G ^c   Batel, Renato ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b Academy of Sciences and Literature   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Filamentous bacteria; Genotoxicity assay; Post treatment assay; Salmonella typhimurium; SOS response; SOS umu test

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; ANTHRACENES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL DIVISION; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034704876     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(00)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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