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Chlornaphazine and chlorambucil induce dominant lethal mutations in male mice
Barnett, L. B., & Lewis, S. (2003). Chlornaphazine and chlorambucil induce dominant lethal mutations in male mice. Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research, 543(2), 145-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1383-5742(03)00012-7
Two antineoplastic agents, chlomaphazine (CN) and chlorambucil (CHL), were tested for the induction of dominant lethal mutations in male mice. Both compounds are nitrogen mustard derivatives and have been shown to be genotoxic in a variety of organisms. CN was administered intraperitoneally to DBA/2J male mice at a dosage of 0, 500, 1000, or 1500 mg/kg body weight (bw). Immediately following treatment, each male was mated at 4-day intervals to two virgin C57BL/6J females. CHL was administered intraperitoneally to C3H/HeJ and DBA/2J males at a dosage of 0, 2.5, or 5.0 mg/kg bw. These males were mated at weekly intervals to two virgin T-stock females. CN and CHL clearly induced dominant lethal mutations. CN induced dominant lethal effects in all post-meiotic germ-cell stages of treated DBA males, with a clear dose-response relationship. The results with CHL-treated DBA males indicated that all post-meiotic germ-cell stages, except late-spermatids, were affected by CHL treatment, while in OH males, CHL induced dominant lethal effects in all post-meiotic germ-cell stages. A dose-response relationship was also observed with CHL in OH male mice. In the present experiments, regardless of the agent or the mouse strain used, spermatids appeared to be the germ-cell stage most sensitive to dominant lethal induction. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V