Base excision repair pathway is involved in the repair of lesions generated by flavonoid-enriched fractions of pepper tree (Schinus terebinthifolius, Raddi) stem bark

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 672-681

  Varela Barca, Francisco Napoleão Túlio ^a   Agnez Lima, Lucymara Fassarella ^b   De Medeiros, Sílvia Regina Batistuzzo ^b  

^a Faculdade de Educação Física   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Biociências   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian pepper tree; Flavonoids; Genotoxicity; Schinus terebinthifolius

Indexed keywords

AMENTOFLAVONE; DIHYDROAMENTOFLAVONE; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE III; FLAVONOID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PLASMID DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TETRAHYDROAMENTOFLAVONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BARK; BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN PEPPER TREE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENOTOXICITY; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PLASMID; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCHNINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FLAVONOIDS; PLANT STEMS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SCHINUS MOLLE; SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS;

EID: 35548994896     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20334     Document Type: Article

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