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Kwan KK, Dutka BJ, Rao SS, et al. Mutatox test: a new test for monitoring environmental genotoxic agents. Environ Pollut. 1990;65(4):323-32doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u.
Kwan, K. K., Dutka, B. J., Rao, S. S., & Liu, D. (1990). Mutatox test: a new test for monitoring environmental genotoxic agents. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 65(4), 323-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u
Kwan, K K, et al. "Mutatox test: a new test for monitoring environmental genotoxic agents." Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) vol. 65,4 (1990): 323-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u
Kwan KK, Dutka BJ, Rao SS, Liu D. Mutatox test: a new test for monitoring environmental genotoxic agents. Environ Pollut. 1990;65(4):323-32. doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u. PMID: 15092256.
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Environ Pollut. 1990;65(4):323-32. doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u.

Mutatox test: a new test for monitoring environmental genotoxic agents.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

K K Kwan, B J Dutka, S S Rao, D Liu

Affiliations

  1. Rivers Research Branch, National Water Research Institute, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 4A6.

PMID: 15092256 DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(90)90124-u

Abstract

In this study, Yamaska River water and Milli-Q water and organically extracted sediment extracts were used to evaluate the sensitivity of a new genotoxicity screening test, the Mutatox test. Also in this study, the samples were tested for acute and chronic toxicity using the following screening test procedures: Microtox, Daphnia magna, Ceriodaphnia reticulata and ATP-TOX Systems. The Mutatox test is based on the use of a dark mutant strain of Photobacterium phosphoreum and is sensitive to chemicals which are (1) DNA damaging agents (2) DNA intercalating agents, (3) DNA synthesis inhibitors and (4) direct mutagens. In this study, the Mutatox test was found to be a simple-to-perform sensitive procedure which added greater scope to the battery of tests approach. Preliminary indications are that this procedure may prove to be one of the more responsive and valuable tests in the 'battery of tests' approach to environmental screening.

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