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The L-Arabinose Resistance Test with Salmonella typhimurium

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Chemical Mutagens

Abstract

The evidence that most animal carcinogens are also mutagens,(20,24) strongly suggesting that DNA is the ultimate target of carcinogenic activation, has been an important support of the somatic mutation theory of the etiology of cancer. The recent demonstration that a single point mutation, a GC to TA transversion, leads to the activation of a human oncogene(30,36) is in agreement with this suggestion.

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Pueyo, C., Ruiz-Rubio, M. (1984). The L-Arabinose Resistance Test with Salmonella typhimurium . In: de Serres, F.J. (eds) Chemical Mutagens. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2771-4_3

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