Ingestion of parsley inhibits the mutagenicity of male human urine following consumption of fried salmon.
The urinary mutagenicity of 3 nonsmoking, healthy men was investigated after strictly defined meals by means of the Ames Salmonella/microsome test. When the subjects ate 150 g of fried salmon at one meal, a potent mutagenicity of almost 5000 revertants of TA98 strain was present in all 6-h urine samples. On the other hand, less than 2500 revertants was present in the urine when the subjects simultaneously consumed 70 g of parsley and 150 g of fried salmon. Thus, the protection against mutagenicity affected by parsley warrants further attention.
Ohyama
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S
Department of Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kitamori
S
S
Kawano
H
H
Yamada
T
T
Inamasu
T
T
Ishizawa
M
M
Ishinishi
N
N
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003296:Cooking; D004032:Diet; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D009153:Mutagens / Q000652:urine*; D010945:Plants, Edible; D012474:Salmon; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects
D009153:Mutagens