Mutagenicity Potential of Some Drugs
Clara Lim-sylianco
Discipline: subjects allied to medicine
Abstract:
A number of man-made chemicals in widespread use have been shown to
be mutagenic in subhuman experimental systems. This poses the possibility that
such chemicals may constitute a potential genetic hazard for man both for the
contemporary generation and for the future generation.
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