Article
Mutagenic fingerprint of ozone in human cells.
DNA repair - 30 May 2002
Jorge Soraia A C, Menck Carlos F M, Sies Helmut, Osborne Martin R, Phillips David H, Sarasin Alain, Stary Anne
Abstract excerpt
Ozone is an important factor in urban pollution and represents a major concern for human health. The chemical reactivity of ozone toward biological targets and particularly its genotoxicity supports a possible link between exposure and cancer risk, but no molecular data exist on its mutagenic potential in human cells. Using a shuttle vector, we showed that ozone is indeed a potent mutagen and we characterized the...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
