Mutagenic Activity of Nitrite-Treated Foods: Human Stomach Cancer May Be Related to Dietary Factors
- 27 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 196 (4293), 1000-1001
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.323974
Abstract
By the Salmonella typhimurium test, extracts of Japanese raw fish treated in the laboratory with nitrite showed mutagenic activity which is prevented by addition of ascorbate. Extracts from similarly treated beef and hot dogs were nonmutagenic. The data conform to a working concept that the high stomach cancer incidence in Japanese and certain other populations may be due to specific dietary factors of an alkylnitrosamide type.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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