摘要：Isolated rat and human hepatocytes in primary culture were shown to metabolize AAF to reactive intermediates which damaged hepatocyte DNA. A significant increase in unscheduled DNA synthesis was detectable by autoradiography in rat and human hepatocytes exposed to concentrations of AAF as low as 1 microM. When rat hepatocytes were plated over confluent monolayers of human fibroblasts and exposed to 3H-AAF, significant binding of AAF to the DNA of the fibroblasts as well as the hepatocytes was measured. In other experiments with hepatocyte-fibroblast cocultures, nonradioactive AAF, at concentrations greater than 40 microM, induced a significant increase in the HPRT- mutation frequency in the human fibroblasts. These results demonstrate that hepatocytes can be used to assess genotoxicity of carcinogenic compounds and are useful for interspecies comparisons in chemical carcinogenesis. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.8M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 165 166 167 168 169 170
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