@@Cyclophosphamide is metabolized to an alkylatiing intermediate (IARC,
26, 165). Increased incidences of CAs and SCEs were observed in peripheral
blood Lym. and, in one study, in bone-marrow cells of patients treated
with this agent for a variety of malignant and nonmalignant diseases.
@@It has been tested extensively for genetic effects in a wide variety of tests in vivo and in vitro, giving consistently positive results. It bound to DNA in kidney, lung and liver of mice and induced DL mutations, CAs, MNs SCE, mutation and DNA damage in rodents treated in vivo. In human cells in vitro, it induced CAs, SCEs and DNA damage. In rodent cells in vitro, it induced transformation, cCAs, SCEs, mutation and UDS. In Drosophila, it induced aneuploidy, heritable translocation and somatic and SLRL mutations. In fungi, it induced aneuploidy, mutation, recombination, gene conversion and DNA damage. In bacteria, it induced mutation and DNA damage. In host-mediated assays, it induced CAs and SCEs in human Lym. cells, mutation and SCEs in Chinese hamster cells, gene conversion in yeast, and mutation in bacteria. Iwas active in body-fluid assays of urine from humans and rodents exposed in vivo, and in one study using serum from rats. (IARC Monographs, 9, 135; 26, 165) |