Female BALB/c mice were fed either a fibre-free diet or one supplemented with 30% wheat-bran for 5 weeks. The ability of these mice to convert MeIQ to a bacteria mutagen in vivo was determined using intrasanguinous host-mediated bacterial mutation assays. Less mutagenic activity was detected in the livers of mice fed the bran-supplemented diet compared with those fed the fibre-free diet. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that the effect of brain was not due to modifications in hepatic metabolism, but to changes in uptake of MeIQ from the gastrointestinal tract. © 1989.
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Howes, A. J., Rowland, I. R., Lake, B. G., & Alldrick, A. J. (1989). Effect of dietary fibre on the mutagenicity and distribution of 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (MeIQ). Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, 210(2), 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/0027-5107(89)90083-3
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