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Main Title Highly sensitive bioassays for evaluating airborne mutagens indoors. {microfiche} / by S. Goto, et al.
Author Goto, S. ; Takagi, Y. ; Endo, O. ; Lewtas, J. ; Matsushita., H.
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC. ;National Inst. of Public Health, Tokyo (Japan). ;Azabu Univ., Sagamihara (Japan).
Publisher US Environmental Protection Agency, Health Effects Research Laboratory
Year Published 1991
Report Number EPA/600/D-90/165
Stock Number PB91-132985
Additional Subjects Mutagens ; Mutations ; Bioassay ; Salmonella typhimurium ; Smoke ; Tobacco ; Foreign technology ; Indoor air pollution ; Mutagenicity tests ; Metabolic activation
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Collation 9 p.
Abstract The standard mutagenicity bioassays that are readily applied to the evaluation of outdoor air samples collected by high volume samplers are not sufficiently sensitive to measure the mutagenicity of low volume air samples collected indoors. Two microsuspension mutation assays using various strains of Salmonella typhimurium were evaluated for the assessment of indoor air pollution. One assay used highly sensitive YG strains of bacteria in a histidine reversion assay. The other was a forward mutation assay detecting 8-azaguanine resistant mutants in the TM677 strain. To decrease the required sample mass in the forward mutation assay, the volume in the preincubation step was decreased 10-fold to produce an ultra microsuspension assay. By applying these assays to indoor air samples, their usefulness was confirmed in investigating the effect of smoking, ventilation or air conditioning.
Place Published Research Triangle Park, NC.,
Supplementary Notes Presented at the International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (5th), Toronto, Canada, July 29-August 3, 1990. Prepared in cooperation with National Inst. of Public Health, Tokyo (Japan), and Azabu Univ., Sagamihara (Japan).
PUB Date Free Form 1990.
NTIS Prices PC A02/MF A01
BIB Level m
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20001226145906
Language eng
Origin NTIS
Type MERGE
OCLC Rec Leader 00731nam 2200193Ka 45020