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Comparative biochemistry and metabolism. Part I. Carcinogenesis. Annual report Jun 81-May 82

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6866159
The inorganic reducing agent, hydrazine, is toxic and weakly carcinogenic. In earlier studies it was found that oral administration of a toxic dose of hydrazine to the rat resulted in methylation of liver DNA guanine moieties with an apparent dependency upon endogenous S-adenosylmethionine as the source of the methyl group. Further studies have been carried out to confirm the identity of these methylated bases in DNA as 7-methylguanine and 06-methylguanine, to determine the rates of their formation and the duration of their persistence in DNA, and to investigate possible mechanisms by which hydrazine might stimulate the methylation of liver DNA.
Research Organization:
California Univ., Irvine (USA). Dept. of Community and Environmental Medicine
OSTI ID:
6866159
Report Number(s):
AD-A-119124/6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English