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Genotoxic evaluation of two oral antidiabetic agents in the Drosophila wing spot test.
Toxicology and industrial health - 1 May 2014
Gürbüzel Mehmet, Çapoğlu Ilyas, Kızılet Halit, Halıcı Zekai, Özçiçek Fatih, Demirtaş Levent
Abstract excerpt
In this study, two sulfonylureas--glimepiride and glipizide--commonly used in type 2 diabetes mellitus were investigated for genotoxicity in the Drosophila wing spot test. For this purpose, three-day-old transheterozygous larvae were treated with three mutagenic compounds, and the results obtained were compared with the control group. Mutational or recombinogenic changes were recorded in two recessive...
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