Strong contamination with ethidium bromide

[Jim 3975]

See the post of 'WS', who is right that the paper does not mention cigarette 
smoke. That must have been somewhere else, can't find it anymore

See also this discussion: 
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/methods/2001-July/089703.html

Just to make sure: I do not advise anyone to have  EtBr for breakfast, I am 
just putting things in perspective. See also the other thread where Piero 
Sestili mentions the importance of persistant exposure to most mutagens: You 
normally don't get cancer from smoking three packs of cigarettes _once_. (Or 
maybe you have a 0.01% increased chance that is not detectable using 
statistical methods).


"Undergrad" <sylvain.bauer from laposte.net> wrote in message 
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> Have you the reference of this paper ? As you can expected I am very 
> interest
> !
>
>
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> Jim 3975 wrote:
>>
>>
>> To get cancer, 16 years is nothing. People who start smoking at 16 don't
>> get
>> lung cancer until 40, 50 years later. (Average age of lung cancer death 
>> is
>> ~70)
>> Bruce Ames showed in a PNAS paper in the seventies that smoking is more
>> mutagenic than ethidum bromide (using fairly realistic doses of both).
>>
>>>"Prof. Piero Sestili" <sestili from uniurb.it> wrote in message
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>>>Nothing to do with the past contamination!  Probably few EB molecules
>>>penetrated to the germinative layer of your skin and most of it was
>>>cleared by corneum.  Just forget it!  16 years ago I noticed an EB stain
>>>on my right hand, due to unexpectedly broken gloves: I'm still here,
>>>writing with the same hand....
>>
>>>For the future simply wear two pairs of lattice gloves when using EB:
>>>normal gloves do not protect so much...and go on with your PhD
>>
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