Breakage factor in systemic sclerosis and protector effect of L-cysteine.

Autor: Emerit, Ingrid, Levy, Arlette, Housset, E.
Zdroj: Humangenetik (00187348); 1974, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p221-226, 6p
Abstrakt: The serum of patients with progressive systemic sclerosis contains a chromosome-breaking agent which can be transferred into the lymphocyte cultures of healthy donors. The aberration rate induced by this 'breakage factor' is reduced to near normal values, if L-cysteine is added to the culture medium over the entire incubation period in a final concentration of 10 mol/l. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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