[GENETIC EVALUATION OF CONTROL VARIANTS OF STRAINS SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM, USED IN THE TEST SALMONELLA/MICROSOME (Ames test)].

There were analyzed data of controls with solvents (DMSO and distilled water) of experiments performed in the laboratory of genetic monitoring in 2004-2014 on Salmonella typhimurium TA 100, TA 98 and TA 97 strains in the versions without and in the presence of metabolic activation. For all strains there was no revealed effect of the either solvent or system of metabolic activation on the average number of colonies of revertants in control. Generalized parameters (historical control) of the average number of colonies of revertants per plate: TA 100--number of experi- ments--317, average--118; 95% intervals of 71-165; TA 98--number of experiments--389, mean--22; 95% intervals 9-36; TA 97--the number of experiments--217, average--142; 95% intervals of 94-191.

Dioxins and cytogenetic status of villagers after 40 years of agent Orange application in Vietnam.

We have examined cytogenetic status of the rural population living on dioxin-contaminated territories (DCT, TCDD in soil 2.6 ng/kg) compared to the villagers of the control area (TCDD in soil 0.18 ng kg(-1)).

[Study of cytogenetic and cytotoxic effect of non-contact electrochemically-activated waters in the five organs of rats].

For the first time the multiorgan karyological analysis of five organs of rats was applied for the study of the cytogenetic and cytotoxic action of the four types of non-contact electrochemically activated water in the 30-days in vivo experiment. The effects of investigated waters were not detected in bone marrow polychromatic erythrocytes. "Anolyte" (ORP = -362 mV) did not have a negative effect on rats.

[Cytogenetic status of patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract before and after treatment].

Aim of this study was to analyze the karyological indicators in exfoliated cells in patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. There was revealed statistically significant (p < 0.01) increase of all parameters in buccal and nasal epithelium in such kind of patients compared to healthy persons.

[Harmonization with international approaches to guidance documents on methods of assessment of the mutagenic properties of chemical environmental factors].

Evaluation of mutagenic activity--an indispensable element of the toxicological characteristics of chemicals in their hygienic regulation. In the article there is performed an analysis of the adopted in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and in Russia guidance documents on methods of assessment of the mutagenic properties of chemicals. In the OECD there are 17 manuals, each of which describes a single method, in Russia there were approved five guidance documents for specific groups of chemicals (drugs, pesticides, nanomaterials, substances normalized in the water and the air), which represent the basic and auxiliary methods of testing mutagens.