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Antimutagenic properties of
fresh-water blue-green algae
Lahitova N, Doupovcova M, Zvonar J, Chandoga
J, Hocman G
Institute of Molecular and Subcellular Biology,
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
The antimutagenic properties of whole fresh-water
blue-green algae Aphanisomenon flos-aquae,
marketed under the commercial name "Alpha
Sun" were tested using the Ames test.
Simultaneous addition of both algae and Nitrovin
(a mutagen) to the test medium did not reduce
the mutagenic activity. On the other hand,
addition of freeze-dried blue-green algae
to the test medium 2-24 h before the application
of mutagen reduced its mutagenic activity.
Folia Microbiol (Praha), 39(4), 1994, pp. 301-3