Assessment of the potential clastogenic/aneugenic risk of Casearia sylvestris extract using in vivo assays
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2007-12-01
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Maistro, Edson Luis [UNESP]
De Andrade, Sergio Faloni
Puras, Marilane Aparecida [UNESP]
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Casearia sylvestris (Flacourtiaceae) is a plant which grows in wild and has been widely used in folk medicine. In this study, clastogenic/aneugenic properties of Casearia sylvestris crude ethanolic extract were evaluated using in vivo chromosomal aberrations (CAs) and micronucleus (MN) assays in rodents. The animals were treated by gavage with 3 concentrations of the extract: 150, 300 and 500 mg/kg body weight. Bone marrow cells from Wistar rats were collected 24 h after having been submitted to the MN and CAs test. Peripheral blood cells from Swiss mice were collected 48 and 72 h after having been submitted to the MN test. The results show that C. sylvestris extract does not induce a significant increase in mean values for micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes (MNPCE) in Swiss mice and Wistar rats, or CAs in rat bone marrow cells, at the 3 tested doses, indicating that the extract showed no clastogenic/aneugenic effects on chromosomes of the rodent cells tested. © 2007 The Japan Mendel Society.
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Casearia sylvestris, Chromosome aberration, In vivo, Micronucleus test, Animalia, Casearia, Flacourtiaceae, Mus, Rattus, Rattus norvegicus, Rodentia
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Cytologia, v. 72, n. 4, p. 401-407, 2007.