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Provedor de dados: | 74
País: | Brazil
Título: | Evaluation of the mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of Ziziphus joazeiro Mart. bark in the micronucleus assay
Autores: | Boriollo,Marcelo Fabiano Gomes; Resende,Marielly Reis; Silva,Thaísla Andrielle da; Públio,Juliana Yoshida; Souza,Luiz Silva; Dias,Carlos Tadeu dos Santos; Oliveira,Nelma de Mello Silva; Fiorini,João Evangelista.
Data: | 2014-06-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Antimutagenicity; Bone marrow; Doxorubicin; Micronucleus assay; Mutagenicity; Zizyphus joazeiro Mart. (raspa-de-Juá).
Resumo: | The aim of this study was to evaluate the mutagenicity (clastogenicity/aneugenicity) of a glycolic extract of Ziziphus joazeiro bark (GEZJ) by the micronucleus assay in mice bone marrow. Antimutagenic activity was also assessed using treatments associated with GEZJ and doxorubicin (DXR). Mice were evaluated 24-48 h after exposure to positive (N-nitroso-N-ethylurea, NEU - 50 mg.kg-1 and DXR - 5 mg.kg-1) and negative (150 mM NaCl) controls, as well as treatment with GEZJ (0.5-2 g.kg-1), GEZJ (2 g.kg-1) + NEU and GEZJ (2 g.kg-1) + DXR. There were no significant differences in the frequencies of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes in mice treated with GEJZ and GEJZ + DXR compared to the negative controls, indicating that GEZJ was not mutagenic. Analysis of the polychromatic:normochromatic erythrocyte ratio revealed significant differences in the responses to doses of 0.5 g.kg-1 and 1-2 g.kg-1 and the positive control (NEU). These results indicated no systemic toxicity and moderate toxicity at lower and higher doses of GEZJ. The lack of mutagenicity and systemic toxicity in the antimutagenic assays, especially for treatment with GEZJ + DXR, suggested that phytochemical compounds in Z. joazeiro bark attenuated DXR-induced mutagenicity and the moderate systemic toxicity of a high dose of Z. joazeiro bark (2 g.kg-1). Further studies on the genotoxicity of Z. joazeiro extracts are necessary to establish the possible health risk in humans and to determine the potential as a chemopreventive agent for therapeutic use.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572014000300016
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
Relação: | 10.1590/S1415-47572014000300016
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.37 n.2 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess