Article
Frequency of HPRT mutant lymphocytes in a human control population as determined by the T-cell cloning procedure.
Mutation research - 1 Oct 1995
Hüttner E, Holzapfel B, Kropf S
Abstract excerpt
The T-cell-cloning assay was established to determine the frequency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) mutant lymphocytes in the presence of the selective agent 6-thioguanine in peripheral blood from a human control population. We investigated 44 healthy adults (blood donors) and found a mean mutant frequency of 7.2 x 10(-6) (geometric mean 5.6 x 10(-6). An elevated mean mutant frequency...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Analysis of Variance
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
