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Short Communication: Ames assay with Salmonella typhimurium TA102 for mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of metallic oxide powders having antibacterial activities

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Metallic oxide powders (magnesium oxide, calcium oxide and zinc oxide) having antibacterial activity were examined for their mutagenicity and antimutagenicity by the Ames test with Salmonella typhimurium TA 102. These powders were not mutagenic to the tester strain and reduced the mutagenicity of methylglyoxal.

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  1. Department of Applied Chemistry, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 243-0292, Japan

    Jun Sawai, Hiromitsu Kojima, Emiko Kawada, Takao Kokugan & Masaru Shimizu

  2. Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health, Tokyo, 169-0073, Japan

    Fumio Kano & Hideo Igarashi

  3. Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, Mie, 514-8507, Japan

    Atsushi Hashimoto

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Sawai, J., Kojima, H., Kano, F. et al. Short Communication: Ames assay with Salmonella typhimurium TA102 for mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of metallic oxide powders having antibacterial activities. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 14, 773–775 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008829325907

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