Monitoring the marine environment for mutagens

VARIOUS chemicals found in the environment are mutagenic when tested in an appropriate screening system 1 , and some of them are deposited as waste in the seas and oceans, where they may or may not be deactivated. A means of monitoring the marine environment for the presence or absence of mutagens w...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 1976-12, Vol.264 (5586), p.538-540
Hauptverfasser:	PARRY, J. M, TWEATS, D. J, AL-MOSSAWI, M. A. J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Biological Assay Bivalvia - analysis Escherichia coli Humanities and Social Sciences letter Liver - analysis Methyl Methanesulfonate - pharmacology Mitosis multidisciplinary Mutagens - analysis Mutation - drug effects Salmonella typhimurium Science Seawater United Kingdom Water Pollutants - analysis Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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Zusammenfassung:	VARIOUS chemicals found in the environment are mutagenic when tested in an appropriate screening system 1 , and some of them are deposited as waste in the seas and oceans, where they may or may not be deactivated. A means of monitoring the marine environment for the presence or absence of mutagens would give some indication of the efficiency of disposal of industrial waste products. In an attempt to minimise the technical problems, we have developed a biological assay for the detection of such pollutants.
ISSN:	0028-0836 1476-4687
DOI:	10.1038/264538a0