Sodium cyanide was not mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA100, TA1535, TA97, or TA98 with or without exogenous metabolic
activation (NTP, 1993). Potassium cyanide was not mutagenic in five strains
(TA1535, TA1537, TA1538, TA98, and TA100) of S. typhimurium with or without metabolic activation (De Flora, 1981). Hydrogen cyanide
induced mutations in S. typhimurium TA100 in the absence of S9 activation, but was not mutagenic to strain
TA98 with or without S9 activation (Kushi et al., 1983). ACH did not induce mutations in S. typhimurium strains TA1535, TA1537, TA1538, TA100, or TA98 in a plate incorporation
assay or at concentratons of 100-950 Κg/ml in a CHO/HGPRT assay (Monsanto
Co., 1983b,c).
DNA repair tests in Escherichia coli WP67, CM871, and WP2 with potassium cyanide were negative (De Flora et al., 1984). Potassium cyanide induced both time- and dose-dependent DNA fragmentation
accompanied by cytotoxicity in rat thymocytes in vitro. Cyanide also induced DNA damage
in baby hamster kidney cells (BHK-21) in vitro, where, unlike thymocytes, internucleosome DNA fragmentation was not observed
(Bhattacharya & Rao, 1997). The cytotoxic mode of double strand breaks
in the pathogenesis of DNA fragmentation was studied by Vock et al. (1998), employing an A549 human epithelial-like lung carcinoma cell line
treated with potassium cyanide. Induction of double strand breaks by potassium
cyanide was observed only after cell viability was reduced to less than
60%, indicating that double strand breaks were the consequence of extragenomic
damage, as a secondary effect of high cytotoxicity in combination with
cell lethality.
Sodium cyanide was a highly effective inducer of germline
aneuploidy in Drosophila (Osgood & Sterling, 1991).
No statistically significant increases in the frequency of
chromosomal aberrations or changes in mitotic index compared with control
values were found in bone marrow cells from four groups of 24 male and
24 female Sprague-Dawley rats administered a single dose of ACH by oral
gavage at levels of 0, 1.5, 5, or 15 mg/kg body weight with preparation
intervals of 6, 12, and 24 h post-administration (Monsanto Co., 1984b).
No testicular DNA synthesis inhibition was detected in mice
after a single oral potassium cyanide dose of 1 mg/kg body weight
(Friedman & Staub, 1976).
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