Topic 1: Introduction to Genetic-Toxicology Assay
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
- In this introduction, you will know about the definition of genetic toxicology assay.
Subtopic:
1.1. What is Genetic-Toxicology Assay?
The genetic-toxicology methodology or assay technique which helps to test or evaluate the level of damages of the genetic information caused by toxicants or agents within the cells (Figure 1). Damages resulted as induced mutations, which may lead to different diseases including cancer. The causative toxic agents are know as mutagens. Mutagens caused for cancer disease, is known as carcinogens.
Figure 1. Diagrammatic steps in genetic toxicology assay.
Topic 1: Key Points
In this section, we explored the following main points:
In this section, we explored the following main points:
- Definition of genetic toxicology methodology
- Causative toxic agents as mutagens.
- Genotoxic damages result the phenotypically or genotypic ally mutant cells.
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