Article
Acrylamide is genotoxic to the somatic and germ cells of Drosophila melanogaster.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 1991
Tripathy N K, Patnaik K K, Nabi M J
Abstract excerpt
The genotoxic effects of acrylamide, a recently detected carcinogen, have been studied in the somatic (wing primordia) and germ cells of Drosophila melanogaster by the wing mosaic assay and the sex-linked recessive lethal test respectively. Larvae, 72 +/- 4 h old, were exposed to 6 different concentrations of acrylamide ranging between 0.25 mM and 5.0 mM in instant medium for 48 h. It is observed that acrylamide...
Topics
- Acrylamide
- Acrylamides
- Animals
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Genes, Lethal
- Genes, Recessive
- Germ Cells
- Male
- Mosaicism
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
