Article
Genotoxicity of malachite green and leucomalachite green in female Big Blue B6C3F1 mice.
Mutation research - 11 Jul 2004
Mittelstaedt Roberta A, Mei Nan, Webb Peggy J, Shaddock Joseph G, Dobrovolsky Vasily N, McGarrity Lynda J, Morris Suzanne M, Chen Tao, Beland Frederick A, Greenlees Kevin J, Heflich Robert H
Abstract excerpt
Malachite green, a triphenylmethane dye used in aquaculture as an antifungal agent, is rapidly reduced in vivo to leucomalachite green. Previous studies in which female B6C3F1 mice were fed malachite green produced relatively high levels of liver DNA adducts after 28 days, but no significant induction of liver tumors was detected in a 2-year feeding study. Comparable experiments conducted with leucomalachite...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Aniline Compounds
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Adducts
- Erythrocytes
- Female
- Liver
- Lymphocytes
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
