Abstract:
Genotoxicity of microcystins extracted from waterbloom of Taihu Lake was detected using Ames test,micronucleus assay of mice bone marrow cell and mice sperm malformation test. The results showed that microcystins could induce the reverse mutagenesis of TA98 strain directly,but mutagenic effect disappeared after addition of S9,indicating no pro-mutagen in microcystins.Microcystins could significantly increase the mice bone marrow micronucleus frequency,and a dose-response relationship existed,but it did not increase mice sperm malformation rate.