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Actual problems of genetic toxicology

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The review deals with current issues of genetic toxicology and aims to develop this science at the contemporary stage. We study general approaches to assessing the genotoxic and mutagenic activity of environmental factors; to constructing a regulatory system of chemical compounds that considers the mutagenic effect in Russia and abroad; and to determining modern methods for assessing the organ specificity of mutagens, alternative methods of genetic toxicology, the mutagenic action of various factors in the survey of population, and the abilities of toxicogenomics to identify the mutagenic properties of the environment.

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Original Russian Text © L.P. Sycheva, V.S. Zhurkov, Yu.A. Rakhmanin, 2013, published in Genetika, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 293–302.

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Sycheva, L.P., Zhurkov, V.S. & Rakhmanin, Y.A. Actual problems of genetic toxicology. Russ J Genet 49, 255–262 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795413030162

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