Article
Mutagenicity of 2 anti-chagasic drugs and their metabolic deactivation.
Mutation research - 1 Jan 2000
Nagel R, Nepomnaschy I
Abstract excerpt
2 anti-chagasic drugs, nifurtimox and benznidazole, were assayed in the Salmonella/mammalian microsome test. These drugs were most active in strain TA100. Under certain experimental conditions, addition of rat-liver S9 mix led to a decrease in the number of his+ revertants induced by the drugs.
Topics
- Animals
- Biotransformation
- Chagas Disease
- Humans
- Microsomes, Liver
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutagens
- Mutation
- Nifurtimox
- Nitrofurans
- Nitroimidazoles
- Rats
- Salmonella typhimurium
