In vitro mutagenicity studies of the antiretrovirals AZT, didanosine, and 3TC and a plant antiviral extract Secomet-V derived from the Trifollium species

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1056, Issue , 2005, Pages 303-310

  Ballardin, Michela ^a   Scarpato, Roberto ^a   Kotwal, Girish J ^b   Barale, Roberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex mixtures; Human lymphocytes; Micronuclei; Mutagenicity; Plant extract; Salmonella Ames test; Sister chromatid exchanges

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; DIDANOSINE; LAMIVUDINE; PLANT EXTRACT; SECOMET V; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIDOVUDINE;

AMES TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG PURIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TRIFOLLIUM; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ANIMALIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 29744463636     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1352.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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