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A model of sensitivity: 1,3-butadiene increases mutant frequencies and genomic damage in mice lacking a functional microsomal epoxide hydrolase gene.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 2003
Wickliffe Jeffrey K, Ammenheuser Marinel M, Salazar James J, Abdel-Rahman Sherif Z, Hastings-Smith Darlene A, Postlethwait Edward M, Lloyd R Stephen, Ward Jonathan B
Abstract excerpt
The specific role that polymorphisms in xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes play in modulating sensitivity to 1,3-butadiene (BD) genotoxicity has been relatively unexplored. The enzyme microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) is important in detoxifying the mutagenic epoxides of BD (butadiene monoepoxide [BDO], butadiene diepoxide [BDO(2)]). Polymorphisms in the human mEH gene appear to affect the function of the enzyme....
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