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TEST. Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing. 7 Penn. St. Rep. 428; 6 Whart. 284. Vide Religious Test.



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, inventor of the Ames test for mutagenicity and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at U.
APM was not genotoxic in the following tests: dominant lethal mutation assay in rats, host-mediated assay in rats and mice, in vivo cytogenetic assay in rats, and the Ames test (Kotsonis and Hjelle 1996).
Commonly found in feces, 7-OHIQ was identified during the 1980s as a direct-acting mutagen in the Ames test, a bacterial assay used to screen for potential carciongens.
 
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