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[Hygienic evaluation of the total mutagenic activity of snow samples from Magnitogorsk].
Gigiena i sanitariia - 1 Jan 2000
Legostaeva T B, Ingel' F I, Antipanova N A, Iurchenko V V, Iuretseva N A, Kotliar N N
Abstract excerpt
The paper gives the results of 4-year monitoring of the total mutagenic activity of snow samples from different Magnitogork areas in a test for induction of dominant lethal mutations (DLM) in the gametes of Drosophila melanogaster. An association was first found between the rate of DLM and the content of some chemical compounds in the ambient air and snow samples; moreover all the substances present in the...
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