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Genotoxicity of lomefloxacin--an antibacterial drug in somatic and germ cells of Swiss albino mice in vivo.
Mutation research - 5 Feb 2003
Singh Akhilesh C, Kumar Mithilesh, Jha Anand M
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The in vivo genotoxicity of lomefloxacin, a diflourinated antibacterial drug, was evaluated by employing mouse in vivo chromosomal aberration test in bone marrow cells and dominant lethal mutation assay in germ cells. Statistically significant reduction in mitotic index, increase in chromosomal aberrations (CAs)/cell and percent abnormal metaphase was observed only at the highest dose (160 mg/kg b.w.) of the...
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