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Title: Urine recovery experiments with quercetin and other mutagens using the Ames test

Journal Article · · Environ. Mutagen.; (United States)

Recovery from urine of the mutagenic activity of 2-anthramine, cyclophosphamide, 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, 6-chloro-9-((3-(2-chloroethylamino)-propyl)amino)-2-methoxyacridine dihydrochloride (ICR-191), mitomycin-C, nitrofurantoin, and quercetin was studied with several of the Ames tester strains using acetone-extracted XAD-2 columns with yields ranging from 27% to 79%. Dose responses of the pure chemicals were also studied, and results showed TA 97 to be far more susceptible to quercetin mutagenesis than TA 1537. Reducing pour plate agar volume enhanced mutagenesis.

Research Organization:
Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center, Madison
OSTI ID:
5498928
Journal Information:
Environ. Mutagen.; (United States), Vol. 8:3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English