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The herbicides alachlor, atrazine, terbuthylazine, gluphosinate-ammonium, isoproturon, pendimethaline and trifluralin were tested for genotoxicity in the mouse bone-marrow micronucleus test (MNT). Both atrazine and trifluraline caused a significant increase in the number of micronuclei at doses of 1400 mg/kg body weight in female mice only. Alachlor, terbuthylazine, gluphosinate-ammonium, isoproturon and pendimethaline did not have any genotoxic effect in the mouse bone-marrow micronucleus test in either female or male animals.
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Received: 20 June 1996 / Accepted: 11 September 1996
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Gebel, T., Kevekordes, S., Pav, K. et al. In vivo genotoxicity of selected herbicides in the mouse bone-marrow micronucleus test. Arch Toxicol 71, 193–197 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002040050375
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002040050375