Article
Frequencies of hprt mutant lymphocytes in smokers, non-smokers, and former smokers.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Jan 1997
Ammenheuser M M, Hastings D A, Whorton E B, Ward J B
Abstract excerpt
Previous work with the autoradiographic mutant lymphocyte assay has provided information about the time-course of development of hprt mutations and the persistence of detectable mutant cells in human subjects following therapeutic exposures to genotoxic agents. These early studies also revealed e...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Cannabis
- Cotinine
- Female
- Humans
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
- Plants, Toxic
- Racial Groups
- Smoking
- Smoking Cessation
- Nicotiana