Study of the mutagenic and antimutagenic activity of the human and animal blood]

Mutagenic and antimutagenic properties of humans, bull, rabbit, chick, rat, and mouse were studied using seeds of Crepis capillaries (the chromosome aberration test). Antimutagenic activity was found in pre-processing, combined, and post-processing conditions of the seeds with a blood relative to the mutation inductors. Whole human and animal blood was found to be capable of inducing chromosome aberrations far exceeding the level of spontaneous mutations. Dilution of the blood did not eliminate its antimutagenic activity.