Mutagenicity of medicinal plant extracts
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Isabel Cristina Fernandes de Sá Ferreira; Vera Maria Ferrão Vargas
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Aqueous extracts of medicinal plants used in south Brazilian folk medicine (Myrciaria tenella, Smilax campestris, Tripodanthus acutifolius and Cassia corymbosa) were screened for the presence of mutagenic activity in the Salmonella/microsome assay. Signs of an increased mutagenic induction below rev