Antimutagenicity screening of extracts from medicinal and edible plants against N-methyl-N-nitrosourea by the Ames assay

J Tatsuzaki, Y Jinwei, Y Kojo, Y Mine… - Genes and …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
N-Nitroso compounds are suspected to be causative agents for human cancer. N-Methyl-N-
nitrosourea (MNU) is a typical direct acting mutagen with alkylation activity of DNA, and has …