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Cultured AHH1 human lymphoblast cells were exposed to an extract ofMintostachys mollis, which is used as a medicinal plant and preservative in Peru, to detect its mutagenic activity. A three-day exposure to concentrations of 1, 10, 30 and 50 µg/ml resulted in induced mutant fraction of 1.02, 1.79, 2.21 and 3.80 mutations per million cells per day, expressed as 6-Thioguanine resistance. A concentration of 10µg/ml induced 11.9 times the spontaneous mutant fraction of AHH1 cells. The doubling dose determined to be 838 ng/ml. A concentration of 30 µg/ml of this compound resembled the induced rate of 1 µM benzo (α) pryene.
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Carvajal, G., Thilly, W. Mutagenic activity ofMintostachys mollis in AHH1 lymphoblast cells. Plant Food Hum Nutr 38, 105–114 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091714
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