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Research advances in DNA adducts:Their formation,diagnosis and pollution-exposure indication

WANG Mei'e, ZHOU Qixing   

  1. Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2003-07-21 Revised:2004-01-06 Online:2004-10-15

Abstract: With the cognitive penetration of ecotoxicological effects into a molecular level,more attention has been paid to the research on DNA adducts.This paper analyzed toxic mechanisms and formative processes of DNA adducts,and introduced in brief their diagnostic methods,including chromatogram-mass spectrum method, 32P post-labeling method,immunology method and fluorescence method.The pollution-exposure indication of DNA adducts was expounded as an effective molecular biomarker,and thus,DNA adducts could be used by ecotoxicologists as a good caution signal in forecasting hazardous effects of pollutants.

Key words: DNA adduct, Ecotoxicological effect, Molecular biomarker

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