Article
Antimutagenic activity of extracts of leaves of four common edible vegetable plants in Nigeria (west Africa).
Mutation research - 1 Jun 1993
Obaseiki-Ebor E E, Odukoya K, Telikepalli H, Mitscher L A, Shankel D M
Abstract excerpt
Organic solvent extracts of leaves of 4 common edible vegetable plants--Bryophyllum pinnatum, Dialium guincense, Ocimum gratissimum and Vernonia amygdalina--had inhibitory activity for His- to His+ reverse-mutations induced by ethyl methanesulfonate acting on Salmonella typhimurium TA100. The con...
Topics
- Acetates
- Alkanes
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Ethyl Methanesulfonate
- Fluorenes
- Genes, Bacterial
- Methanol
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
- Nigeria
- Phenylenediamines
- Plant Extracts
- Plants, Edible
- Salmonella typhimurium