We have been quantitating, as a marker of cancer susceptibility, induced chromatid breaks in lymphocyte cultures exposed to chemical mutagens. This report highlights the consistency of the results from two casecontrol studies, using different methods of presenting the data. In both the lung cancer case-control study, which used bleomycin, a radiomimetic agent, as the test mutagen, and the melan...

Mycotoxins are a common contaminant problem in feed ingredients. Aflatoxins are a class of these fungal contaminants produced by the genus Aspergillus. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is the most common and is a harmful mutagen and liver carcinogen (Biehl and Buck, 1987). Aflatoxins negatively influence growth performance, liver performance, immune response, serum protein levels and relative organ weights.

The number of chromatid breaks in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) after exposure to bleomycin in the S/G2 phase of the cell cycle (in the literature referred to as 'mutagen sensitivity') is associated with an increased risk of environmentally related cancers, including oral cancer. The aim of this study was to elucidate whether mutagen sensitivity measured in lymphocytes actually reflects ch...

Mutagenicity on TA98 and YG1024 Salmonella typhimurium strains of pan-fried hamburger extracts and of 24 h post-meal urine from 32 non-smoking volunteers was evaluated. Each participant in the study was GSTM1 and NAT2 genotyped. After cooking the meat showed mutagenic activity (mean +/- SD) on strains TA98 and YG1024 of 114 +/- 129 and 1437 +/- 1536 net revertants/g respectively. Twenty three o...