Genotoxicity of ethyl carbamate (urethane) in Salmonella, yeast and human lymphoblastoid cells

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 390, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 11-19

  Hübner, Philipp ^a   Groux, Philippe M ^a,d   Weibel, Beatrice ^b   Sengstag, Christian ^b   Horlbeck, Janine ^c   Leong Morgenthaler, Phaik Mooi ^c,e   Lüthy, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d Boehringer Mannheim (Schweiz) AG   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ames test; Ethyl carbamate (urethane); Human lymphoblastoid TK6 cell; Hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase; Thymidine kinase; Yeast genotoxicity test

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; URETHAN;

AMES TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0343051886     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1218(96)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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