Allyl isothiocyanate is mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium.

doi:10.1016/0165-1218(85)90004-7

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Allyl isothiocyanate is mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium.

Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000

Neudecker T, Henschler D

Abstract excerpt

Allyl isothiocyanate, a naturally occurring compound, component of oil of mustard and human food plants such as cabbage, cauliflower and horseradish, has up to now been regarded as nonmutagenic in bacterial mutagenicity testing systems. Recently, however, it was found to cause transitional-cell p...

Topics

Animals
Biotransformation
Isothiocyanates
Male
Microsomes, Liver
Mutagenicity Tests
Mutation
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Salmonella typhimurium
Thiocyanates

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