Article
Screening for agents inhibiting the mutagenicity of extracts and constituents of tobacco products.
Mutation research - 1 Aug 1994
Romert L, Jansson T, Curvall M, Jenssen D
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to screen for potential agents affecting the mutagenicity of tobacco products. The influence of a number of compounds which have been suggested to be antimutagenic some of which are present in tobacco products, was investigated on the mutagenicity of a cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) and, in some cases, an extract of oral Swedish moist snuff (SNUS), using a screening procedure of the...
Topics
- Antimutagenic Agents
- Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
- Flavonoids
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
- Plant Extracts
- Plants, Toxic
- Porphyrins
- Smoke
- Sodium Selenite
- Terpenes
- Tobacco, Smokeless
