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  • Title: Linear dose--response relationships after prolonged expression times in V-79 Chinese hamster cells.
    Author: Van Zeeland AA, Simons JW.
    Journal: Mutat Res; 1976 Apr; 35(1):129-37. PubMed ID: 178997.
    Abstract:
    The expression time for induced mutants resistant to 6-thioguanine, in V-79 Chinese hamster cells, was determined by respreading the cells in the selective medium, at various times after treatment. The length of the expression time for mutants induced by X-rays, ethyl methane sulphonate and ultraviolet irradiation was dose dependent. For the highest dose used this was 7 to 8 days, beyond which there was no further changes in mutant frequency. The dose-response relationship of these agents does not appear to deviate from linearity; this permits the calculation of mutation rate per unit dose. For X-rays this value was 1.35 - 10(-7) per rad per locus, for ethyl methane sulphonate, 2.2 - 10(-2) per mole per locus and for ultraviolet irradiation, 6.3 - 10(-6) per erg per mm2 per locus. The effectiveness of the 3 different mutagens for the induction of mutations was compared by calculating the increase in mutant frequency per unit of decrease in survival (Do). These increments in frequency were: 5.6 - 10(-5) for X-rays, 69.5 - 10(-5) for ethyl methane sulphonate and 16.1 - 10(-5) for ultraviolet irradiation.
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