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One of a number of procedures used to test substances for likely ability to cause cancer that combines the use of animal tissue to generate active metabolites of the substance with a test for mutagenicity in bacteria.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(22 Feb 2008)
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