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Published on: April 26, 2018
The mutagenic potentiator effect of chlorophyllin by the HGPRT assay
Priscilla Davidson Negraes1, Berenice Quinzani Jordão, Veronica Elisa Pimenta Vicentini
1Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Campus Universitario CP 6001, Laboratório de Mutagênese in vitro, Parana 86051 990, Brazil.
Abstract:
Chlorophyllin, a sodium-copper salt derivative of chlorophyll-a and -b, was evaluated for antimutagenic activity against ethyl methane sulfonate by the hypoxanthin-guanine-phosphoribosyl transferase (HGPRT) assay. The results obtained suggest that this chlorophyllin can potentiate the mutagenicity of an alkylating agent which induces DNA damage.
