ANTIMUTAGENIC EFFICACY OF HIGHER DOSES OF VITAMIN-C

被引:30
作者
KHAN, PK [1 ]
SINHA, SP [1 ]
机构
[1] BHAGALPUR UNIV,DEPT ZOOL,BHAGALPUR 812007,INDIA
来源
MUTATION RESEARCH | 1993年 / 298卷 / 03期
关键词
ENDOSULFAN; PHOSPHAMIDON; MANCOZEB; VITAMIN-C; CLASTOGENICITY;
D O I
10.1016/0165-1218(93)90036-D
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Vitamin C, when administered concurrently with a pesticide (endosulfan, phosphamidon or mancozeb), could significantly decrease the frequency of pesticide-induced clastogenic and mitosis-disruptive changes in the bone marrow cells of young Swiss albino mice. Of the three doses (10, 20 or 40 mg/kg b.wt./day) of the vitamin, the one which is double the human therapeutic dose (20 mg/kg b.wt./day) was most effective as an antimutagen to be followed by 40 mg and 10 mg. None of these doses of vitamin C showed any genotoxicity of their own for the parameters studied here.
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页码:157 / 161
页数:5
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