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TERATOGENESIS CARCINOGENESIS AND MUTAGENESIS
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 383-393Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1026
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natural products; chromosomal aberrations; sister chromatid exchange; human lymphocytes; bone marrow cells; genotoxicity
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Centratherin is a sesquiterpene lactone known for its antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and trypanocidal activities. The aim of this study was to determine the clastogenic and cytotoxic potential of centratherin in human lymphocytes and in mice. Human lymphocytes in culture were submitted to either continuous treatment or treatment during Gz phase of the cell cycle. After continuous treatment the 0.2 mug/ml concentration induced a significant increase in total of chromosomal aberrations (CA) and sister chromatid exchange compared to control, and it reduced the mitotic index (MI). In the treatment during G(2) phase, centratherin induced a significant increase in the frequency of CA for all concentrations tested (0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 mug/ml). In the in vivo test system all three concentrations tested in mice (3.3, 6.7, and 13.3 mg/kg b.w.) induced a significant increase in CA compared to the negative control. On the basis of these results, centratherin showed clastogenic and cytotoxic activity on in vitro and in vivo mammalian systems. Teratogenesis Carcinog. Mutagen. 21:383-393, 2001. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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