Bone marrow genotoxicity of N-methyl, N-nitrosourea (NMU): n-alkanols as sister chromatid exchange (SCE) anti-inducers
1983
The in vivo SCE test was used to demonstrate significant inhibition, of NMU bone marrow genotoxicity by pretreatment of Chinese hamsters with n-alkanols. Our findings exclude a loss of intracellular DNA alkylation potential through a competitive direct reaction of NMU with the weakly nucleophilic polar end of the n-alkanols, but not through methylations of nucleophilic membrane sites possibly liberated by structural modifications which the membrane-active amphiphilics induce.
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