Genotoxicity of the cooked‐food mutagens IQ and MeIQ in primary cultures of rat, hamster, and guinea pig hepatocytes
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Environmental Mutagenesis
- Vol. 7 (2) , 245-254
- https://doi.org/10.1002/em.2860070211
Abstract
To investigate possible interspecies differences in the hepatocellular genotoxicity of the food‐borne mutagens 2‐amino‐3‐methyl‐imidazo[4,5‐f]quinoline (IQ) and 2‐amino‐3,4‐dimethyl‐imidazo[4,5‐f]quinoline (MeIQ), primary cultures of rat, hamster, and guinea pig hepatocytes were established. The induction of DNA repair activity in cultures exposed to various concentrations of IQ and MeIQ was determined by liquid scintillation spectrometry. DNA repair responses to MeIQ were, in general, greater than those elicited by IQ. In all three preparations of rat and hamster hepatocytes and in two of three preparations of guinea pig cells, MeIQ produced statistically significant (p <0.05) repair responses. IQ stimulated significant levels of repair in all three rat hepatocyte preparations and in two of three hamster cell preparations. In guinea pig cells exposed to IQ, no significant repair activity was observed. These results indicate that the genotoxicity of IQ and MeIQ in hepatic cells in species‐dependent.Keywords
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