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A comparative study of five nitro musk compounds for genotoxicity in the SOS chromotest and Salmonella mutagenicity.
Toxicology letters - 1 Jun 1996
Emig M, Reinhardt A, Mersch-Sundermann V
Abstract excerpt
Five nitro musk compounds widely used in cosmetics and detergents were examined for DNA-damaging and mutation-inducing properties. For this purpose two short-time assays were used, the SOS chromotest and the Salmonella/mammalian microsome test. Musk ambrette showed mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium TA 100 requiring metabolic activation by rat liver postmitochondrial supernatant (S9) but it lacked...
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