Article
Mutation modulating activity in human serum factors induced after parabolic flight.
Journal of gravitational physiology : a journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology - 1 Jul 2000
Takahashi S, Chi X J, Nomura J, Sugaya S, Kita K, Suzuki N
Abstract excerpt
We have reported that human interferon, one of cytokines present in serum, can confer hypomutability on various human cells. On the contrary, we have also reported that serum factors from cancer patients can enhance cell mutability. Therefore, it seems likely that cell mutability is changed by cytokine-like serum factors in our body. It is one of important space problems whether the mutability of human cells is...
Topics
- Adult
- Endopeptidases
- Female
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Hypergravity
- Immunologic Factors
- Interferon-alpha
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Methylnitronitrosoguanidine
- Mutagenesis
- Mutation
- Plasminogen
- Space Flight
- Weightlessness
