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Antimutagenic effects of centchroman - a contraceptive and a candidate drug for breast cancer in multiple mutational assays

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Title Antimutagenic effects of centchroman - a contraceptive and a candidate drug for breast cancer in multiple mutational assays
 
Creator Giri, Ashok K
Mukhopadhyay , Amitabha
Sun, J
Hsie, Abraham W
Ray, Suprabhat
 
Subject Molecular & Human Genetics
 
Description Centchroman (CC), a non-steroidal oral contraceptive and a candidate drug for breast cancer, has been reported to exhibit partial to complete remission of lesions in 40.5% of breast cancer patients. The potent anti-oestrogenic activity, negligible side-effects and anti-breast cancer activity of CC prompted us to evaluate the antimutagenic effects of this compound in a bacterial mutagenicity assay and CHO/ HPRT and AS52/GPT mutation assays in vitro and in vivo in female Swiss albino mice as measured by both sister chromatid exchange (SCE) and chromosome aberrations (CA) against three known positive mutagen compounds, dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), cyclophosphamide (CP) and mitomycin C (MMC), Antimutagenicity assays in Salmonella strains TA97a, TA100, TA98 and TA102 were carried out against commonly used known positive mutagens, sodium azide, 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine, cumine hydroperoxide, 2-aminofluorene and danthron, A significantly reduced number of bacterial histidine revertant colonies was observed in the plates treated with 0.1, 1, 5 and 10 mu g/plate CC and a positive compound when compared with bacterial plates treated with the respective positive compound alone. Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS), a commonly used positive mutagen for CHO/HPRT and AS52/GPT gene mutation assays, was used for antimutagenicity assay in these cells, CC exhibited protective effects against the mutagenicity of EMS in these two mammalian cell mutation assays, CHO/HPRT and AS52/GPT, In the irt vivo studies, pretreatment with CC reduced DMBA-induced SCE and CA and CP- and MMC-induced CA when compared with the group treated only with the positive compounds. These results indicate that CC can reduce the mutagenic effects of known genotoxic compounds
 
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Date 1999
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/733/1/MUTAGENESIS__14(_6)_613%2D619;1999[12].pdf
Giri, Ashok K and Mukhopadhyay , Amitabha and Sun, J and Hsie, Abraham W and Ray, Suprabhat (1999) Antimutagenic effects of centchroman - a contraceptive and a candidate drug for breast cancer in multiple mutational assays. Mutagenesis, 14 (6). pp. 613-619.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/733/