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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A bioassay for detecting mutagenic and possibly carcinogenic compounds, developed by Bruce N. Ames in 1974. Reverse mutants to histidine independence are scored by growing Salmonella typhimurium on plates deficient in histidine in the presence of the chemical(test)and in its absence(control). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The test works by taking bacteria that already have a single mutation, for example, a strain that cannot produce histidine, an amino acid that is essential for the bacterium to live. These bacteria are then exposed to the agent to be tested, and brought into an environment that is ideal for them to live and procreate, except it does not contain histidine. The more mutations the agent caused in the bacteria, the more likely it is for some of them to reverse the original mutation, that is, that the mutation occurs exactly in the right place to allow the bacteria to produce histidine again by themselves. The number of surviving bacteria colonies thus corresponds with the strength of the mutagen.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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ames test | 24 |
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| Language | Translations for "AMES TEST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Ames'test (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Ames-test (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Amesin testi (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | test de Ames. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ames-Test (Salmonella-microsome test), Salmonella-Mikrosomen-Test (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δοκιμή κατά Ames (Salmonella-microsome test), δοκιμή σαλμονέλλας (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prova di Ames (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amesay esttay teste de Ames (Salmonella-microsome test), prova de Ames (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) prueba de Ames (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) Ames test (Salmonella-microsome test). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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