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Science 27 May 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4293, pp. 1000 - 1001
DOI: 10.1126/science.323974
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Science, Vol 196, Issue 4293, 1000-1001
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Mutagenic activity of nitrite-treated foods: human stomach cancer may be related to dietary factors

H Marquardt, F Rufino, and JH Weisburger

By the Salmonella typhimurium test, extracts of Japanese raw fish treated in the laboratory with nitrite showed mutagenic activity which is prevented by addition of ascorbate. Extracts from similarly treated beef and hot dogs were nonmutagenic. The data conform to a working concept that the high stomach cancer incidence in Japanese and certain other populations may be due to specific dietary factors of an alkylnitrosamide type.




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