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To get an idea about the response of a living system, exposed to gradually increasing doses of a mutagen for several generations, a population of V-79 Chinese hamster cells was exposed repeatedly to gradually increasing doses of UV radiation. Each dose was followed by a variable period of growth for at least ten generations. After treatment the cells were not mutable by UV radiation, though MNNG was capable of producing mutations with the same efficiency as in the untreated cells. In terms of viability, the treated cells behaved exactly as the untreated ones for both UV and MNNG. The observed behaviour of the treated cells was found to be stable for during the 50 passages studied.
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Abbreviations
- DMSO:
-
dimethylsulphoxide
- Aza:
-
8-Azaguanine
- MEM:
-
minimal essential medium
- PBS:
-
phosphate buffered saline
- MNNG:
-
N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine
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Chatterjee, S., Bhattacharjee, S.B., Bhattacharyya, N. et al. UV non-mutable mutant from V-79 Chinese hamster cells. Molec Gen Genet 193, 251–254 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330676
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330676