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  • Thumbnail for Mutagen
    screens for mutagens and allows for preliminary identification of carcinogens. Early studies by Ames showed around 90% of known carcinogens can be identified...
    52 KB (6,017 words) - 05:31, 27 September 2024
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    observed. Mutagens identified via Ames test are also possible carcinogens, and early studies by Ames showed that 90% of known carcinogens may be identified...
    19 KB (2,378 words) - 04:32, 30 October 2024
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    "indirect-acting" carcinogens. Examples of activation-dependent carcinogens include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), heterocyclic aromatic amines, and mycotoxins...
    45 KB (4,577 words) - 12:14, 27 October 2024
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    September 2006. Hartman PE, Putative mutagens and carcinogens in foods. IV. Malonaldehyde (malondialdehyde) Environ Mutagen. 1983;5(4):603-7 Dourerdjou, P.;...
    9 KB (930 words) - 21:51, 8 September 2024
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    bioaccumulate in humans and wildlife due to their lipophilic properties, and are known teratogens, mutagens, and carcinogens. PCDDs are formed through...
    6 KB (479 words) - 13:16, 2 April 2023
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    as a carcinogen; the components are only "likely to become" known carcinogens. Solar radiation (sunlight) and sunlamps are listed as carcinogens because...
    41 KB (4,413 words) - 09:35, 8 September 2024
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    Diepoxybutane (category Carcinogens)
    Occupational Safety and Health Diepoxybutane Report on Carcinogens, Twelfth Edition (2011) "National Toxicology Program: 15th Report on Carcinogens". National...
    10 KB (843 words) - 09:27, 16 December 2023
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    Bruce Ames (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
    which is a cheap and convenient assay for mutagens and therefore potential carcinogens. Previous carcinogenic testing used live animals, and the procedures...
    14 KB (1,503 words) - 10:55, 28 October 2024
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    Smoke contains several carcinogenic pyrolytic products that bind to DNA and cause genetic mutations. Particularly potent carcinogens are polycyclic aromatic...
    198 KB (21,902 words) - 09:09, 11 November 2024
  • The safe handling of carcinogens is the handling of cancer causing substances in a safe and responsible manner. Carcinogens are defined as 'a substance...
    8 KB (930 words) - 22:16, 1 October 2023
  • life forms and is responsible for processing pheromones and steroids and also metabolizing insecticides, drugs, mutagens, and carcinogens. The p450 system...
    14 KB (1,726 words) - 22:55, 8 July 2024
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    Methylnitronitrosoguanidine (category Mutagens)
    carcinogen and mutagen. It acts by adding alkyl groups to the O6 of guanine and O4 of thymine, which can lead to transition mutations between GC and AT...
    4 KB (279 words) - 10:39, 13 October 2024
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    cardiovascular system, and bone marrow can occur. In animal studies, DNP acted as a teratogen, mutagen, and carcinogen and caused developmental and reproductive...
    35 KB (3,728 words) - 04:07, 6 November 2024
  • natural defences against cancer, deactivation of carcinogens, and blocking the mechanisms by which carcinogens act (such as free radical damage to DNA). Confirmation...
    2 KB (174 words) - 14:54, 29 November 2021
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    SOS chromotest (category Biological techniques and tools)
    against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens. ICPEMC working paper 2/6. An appraisal of predictive tests for carcinogenicity". Mutat. Res. 99 (1): 53–71...
    7 KB (954 words) - 08:08, 17 September 2021
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    Mutagen X (MX), or 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-5H-furan-2-one, is a byproduct of the disinfection of water by chlorination. MX is produced by...
    3 KB (241 words) - 03:39, 24 June 2020
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    ENU (category Mutagens)
    of chemical mutagens such as procarbazine and ethylnitrosourea for SLT. At that time, procarbazine was the most potent chemical mutagen known to cause...
    22 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 7 September 2024
  • asphyxiants, corrosives, irritants, sensitizers, carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens, reactants, and flammables. In the workplace, exposure to chemical...
    18 KB (2,602 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for (+)-Benzo(a)pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide
    which is then oxidised by cytochrome P450 oxidase again forming the mutagen and carcinogen (+)-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide. This diol epoxide...
    16 KB (1,494 words) - 08:30, 24 January 2024
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    the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Commission for Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens. 19 researchers, including Myers...
    13 KB (1,510 words) - 22:53, 31 May 2024
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