Published February 1981
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Report
Similarities in the lethal and mutagenic effects of sunlight and artificial light in mammalian cells
Description
A mouse lymphoma cell assay system was used to determine relative mutagenicity and lethality of the radiation emitted by sunlight and several commonly encountered fluorescent-type artificial light sources. Comparison of the times required to either double the spontaneous mutation frequency or decrease cell survival by 50 percent showed that for 4 lamps, fluorescent radiation was 0.5 to 5 percent as mutagenic, and sunlamp radiation was 8 times as mutagenic, as sunlight. The fluorescent lamps ranged from less than 1 percent to more than 3 percent as lethal as sunlight while the sunlamp was more than 4 times more lethal than sunlight
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Symposium on biological effects and measurement of light sources
- Journal Page Range
- p. 150-155.
- Report number
- FDA--81-8156
Conference
- Title
- Symposium on biological effects and measurement of light sources.
- Dates
- 9 - 10 Jun 1980.
- Place
- Rockville, MD, USA.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 12632292
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CELL KILLING; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LYMPHOMAS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURVIVAL CURVES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TOXICITY; TUMOR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISIBLE RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMAL CELLS; ANIMALS; DATA; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INFORMATION; MAMMALS; NEOPLASMS; NUMERICAL DATA; PERFORMANCE TESTING; RADIATIONS; RODENTS; TESTING; VERTEBRATES