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Antimutagenic effects of mushrooms.
Mutation research - 1 Aug 1990
Grüter A, Friederich U, Würgler F E
Abstract excerpt
A heat-resistant factor in ethanol extracts of the fungus Craterellus cornucopioides completely inhibited the mutagenicity of aflatoxin B1, benzo[a]pyrene, the acridine half mustard ICR-191 and 2-nitrofluorene in a forward-mutation system using Salmonella typhimurium TM677 (screening for 8-azaguanine resistance). There was no inhibitory effect on the mutagenic activity of 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide, methyl...
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