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In vivo dominant lethal effect of pyrimethamine in male mouse germ cells.
Mutagenesis - 1 Jan 1999
Egeli U, Aydemir N, Akpinar G, Cimen C, Ergül E, Tutar G, Tunca B, Bilaloğlu R
Abstract excerpt
Pyrimethamine is used for treatment of malaria and toxoplasmosis. The embryotoxicity and clastogenicity of pyrimethamine is known and our aim was to investigate its dominant lethal effect in vivo. For this purpose, we used three groups of Swiss-albino male mice and a control group. We injected males with doses of 16, 32 or 64 mg/kg pyrimethamine and housed them with 10 females/male for each mating interval....
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