Article
[A vitamin-antioxidant diet decreases the level of chromosomal damages and the frequency of gene mutations in irradiated mice].
Izvestiia Akademii nauk. Seriia biologicheskaia - 1 Jan 2000
Fomenko L A, Bezlepkina T A, Anoshkin A N, Gaziev A I
Abstract excerpt
Two different methods were used to study the effect of the antioxidant vitamins mixture (AVM) containing beta-carotene, alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid, rutin, and microelements zinc and selenium on mouse resistance to acute and chronic irradiation. Micronucleus test demonstrated that a daily die...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Antioxidants
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Diet
- Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
- Female
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mutation
- Radiation Tolerance
- Radiation-Protective Agents
- Trace Elements
- Vitamins
