Mutagenicity of tetrachloroethene in the
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Vamvakas, Spyridon ;Herkenhoff, Martin ;Dekant, Wolfgang ;Henschler, Dietrich
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The mutagenicity of tetrachloroethene (tetra) and its S conjugate, S-(1,2,2-trichlorovinyl)glutathione (TCVG) was investigated using a modified Ames preincubation assay. TCVG was a potent mutagen in presence of rat kidney particulate fractions containing high concentrations of y-glutamyl transpeptid