Airborne Mutagens Bioassayed in Salmonella typhimurium2
Authors:
- Ronald TalcottRTRonald Talcott
- Eddie WeiEWEddie Wei
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 58 (2) , 449-451
Abstract
Particulate airborne pollutants, collected in Buffalo, New York, and Berkeley, California, were assayed for mutagenic activity in the Ames Salmonella typhimurium test system. Mutagens requiring liver enzymes for activation, as well as direct acting mutagens, were readily detected in the Buffalo sample. By contrast, only direct acting mutagens were detected in the Berkeley sample.Keywords
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