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[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 dietary supplement of AVM reliably decreased the rate of chromosomal damage, namely, X-ray-induced micronuclei in the bone...
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