MUTAGENIC ACTIVATION OF NATURALLY OCCURRING EUGENOL VIA EPOXIDE-DIOL PATHWAY IN REPLICATIVE CULTURES OF EPITHELIAL-CELLS FROM RAT-LIVER

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 171 (1), 100-107
Abstract
The metabolism of eugenol via the epoxide-diol pathway was characterized by the incubation of this compound in replicative cultures of epithelial cells from sexed rat liver. It is a naturally occuring compound which is found as the 2nd metabolite of a known hepatic carcinogen, safrole. Eugenol did not appear as a mutagen while epoxyeugenol was mutagenic using the Ames Test.