Research Article
Evaluation of Toxic, Cytotoxic, Mutagenic, and Antimutagenic Activities of Natural and Technical Cashew Nut Shell Liquids Using the Allium cepa and Artemia salina Bioassays
Table 4
Mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of iCNSL and tCNSL as measured by the number of micronuclei (mean ± SD of 1.000 cells per slide, 5 slides per test group) in A. cepa root meristems at different concentrations and treatments with copper sulphate (1.2 µg·mL−1).
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NC (dechlorinated water). PC (copper sulphate solution). TWEEN (solvent). NT (not tested). 5.000 cells evaluated per bulb, totalling 5.000 per group. aSignificant compared with the negative control; bsignificant compared with the positive control. < 0.05, < 0.01, and < 0.001 ANOVA. Tukey’s test for multiple comparisons between groups. |