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. 1995 Feb;86(2):168-73.
doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1995.tb03035.x.

1,2-Dibromoethane as an initiating agent for cell transformation

A Colacci  1 , P Perocco, M Vaccari, C Da Vià, P Silingardi, E Manzini, W Horn, S Bartoli, S Grilli
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1,2-Dibromoethane as an initiating agent for cell transformation

A Colacci et al. Jpn J Cancer Res. 1995 Feb.

Abstract

The two-stage transformation assay increases the sensitivity of cells to chemicals and permits detection of carcinogens acting as initiating agents. 1,2-Dibromoethane, a representative halogenated aliphatic, has been tested in the two-stage BALB/c 3T3 cells transformation test at dosage from 16 microM to 128 microM. This dose range is much lower than those previously found efficient in transforming BALB/c 3T3 cells. Apart from the lowest dose, which induced borderline effects, all the other assayed dosages appeared to induce heritable changes in the target cells. The initiated cells were revealed as fully transformed foci both in the combination with a chronic promoting treatment and also by allowing cells to perform more rounds of cell replication. The results clearly show that 1,2-dibromoethane can act as an initiator of cell transformation.

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