Shikimic acid and quinic acid are not mutagenic in the Ames assay

Jacobsen, L.B.; Richardson, C.L.; Floss, H.G.

Lloydia 41(5): 450-452

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0024-5461
PMID: 362106
Document Number: 136951
Shikimic acid, reported to cause tumors in mice, and its close structural analog, quinic acid, both ubiquitous constituents of higher plants, were found not to be mutagenic in the Ames Salmonella typhimurium assay when tested with and without the rat liver microsomal activation system.

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