Mutagenicity of some contraceptive drugs in Drosophila melanogaster
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Mutation Research
|February 1, 1981
Abstract:
Combinations of 3 progestins, ethynodiol diacetate, norethynodrel and norgestrel, and 2 oestrogens, ethinyloestradiol and mestranol, were fed to larval Oregon-R fruit flies. None of the steroids studied induced X-linked recessive lethal mutations above the control level in Drosophila melanogaster.