The aneuploldy inducing activity of a Chinese medicinal herb, Tripterygium hypoglaucum (level) Hutch (THH) were investigated by means of thhree cytogenetic end points, namely C-mitotic (CM) effects, micronucleus (MN) ...The aneuploldy inducing activity of a Chinese medicinal herb, Tripterygium hypoglaucum (level) Hutch (THH) were investigated by means of thhree cytogenetic end points, namely C-mitotic (CM) effects, micronucleus (MN) and parallel chromosome structural aberration (CA) analyses in vivo. The experiments were performed on mouse bone marrow cells. THH showed similar gentoxic effects to colchicine (COL) in CM, MN and CA analyses; positive CM effects were observed accompanied with increases of mitotic index and frequencies of C-mltotic cells as well as decreased frequencies of anaphase in all of the THH-treated groups. The compound showed a positive MN response in bone marrow polychromatic erythrocytes but was negative in CA analyses. The preliminary results suggested that THH is an aneuploldy inducer in mouse bone marrow cells under present experiment conditions.展开更多
文摘The aneuploldy inducing activity of a Chinese medicinal herb, Tripterygium hypoglaucum (level) Hutch (THH) were investigated by means of thhree cytogenetic end points, namely C-mitotic (CM) effects, micronucleus (MN) and parallel chromosome structural aberration (CA) analyses in vivo. The experiments were performed on mouse bone marrow cells. THH showed similar gentoxic effects to colchicine (COL) in CM, MN and CA analyses; positive CM effects were observed accompanied with increases of mitotic index and frequencies of C-mltotic cells as well as decreased frequencies of anaphase in all of the THH-treated groups. The compound showed a positive MN response in bone marrow polychromatic erythrocytes but was negative in CA analyses. The preliminary results suggested that THH is an aneuploldy inducer in mouse bone marrow cells under present experiment conditions.
