Mutagenicity of a new hair dye ingredient: 4-ethoxy-m-phenylenediamine.
An ingredient recently introduced in hair dyes, 4-ethoxy-m-phenylenediamine, is mutagenic in histidine-requiring strains of Salmonella typhimurium. Its mutagenic activity is similar to that of the hair dye ingredient is apparently replaced, 4-methoxy-m-phenylenediamine.
D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods; D006202:Hair Dyes / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006203:Hair Preparations / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009153:Mutagens; D010655:Phenylenediamines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects
D006202:Hair Dyes; D006203:Hair Preparations; D009153:Mutagens; D010655:Phenylenediamines