1. known to damage DNA (14). All of the We are currently studying the ability of
2. compounds shown to generate active oxygen o-hydroxy aromatic amines to produce
3. species have a hydroxyl substituent ortho to deoxynucleotide oxidation in DNA. The
4. the amino function. However this does identification of this type of DNA damage
5. not explain the weakly mutagenic results hitherto not detected by many conven