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Ames test

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Ames test
n.
A test used to determine the mutagenic potential of a substance based on the mutation rate of bacteria that are exposed to the substance.
[After Bruce Ames (born 1928), American biochemist.]
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, inventor of the Ames test for mutagenicity and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at U.
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APM was not genotoxic in the following tests: dominant lethal mutation assay in rats, host-mediated assay in rats and mice, in vivo cytogenetic assay in rats, and the Ames test (Kotsonis and Hjelle 1996).
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