Verbascoside is not genotoxic in the ST and HB crosses of the Drosophila wing spot test, and its constituent, caffeic acid, decreases the spontaneous mutation rate in the ST cross

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1082-1090

  Santos Cruz, Luis Felipe ^a   Ávila Acevedo, José Guillermo ^a   Ortega Capitaine, Diego ^a   Ojeda Duplancher, Jesús Clemente ^a   Perdigón Moya, Juana Laura ^a   Hernández Portilla, Luis Barbo ^a   López Dionicio, Héctor ^a   Durán Díaz, Ángel ^a   Dueñas García, Irma Elena ^a   Castañeda Partida, Laura ^a   García Bores, Ana María ^a   Heres Pulido, María Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Buddlejaceae; Cyp450s; Drosophila melanogaster; Phenylpropanoid; SMART; Sunscreen; Verbascoside

Indexed keywords

ACTEOSIDE; CAFFEIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450; SUNSCREEN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA WING SPOT TEST; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HIGH BIOACTIVATION CROSS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LC 50; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STANDARD CROSS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CAFFEIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DROSOPHILA; GLUCOSIDES; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTATION; PHENOLS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WING;

BUDDLEJA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

EID: 84856607930     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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