The antimutagenic effects of 46 kinds of medicinal plants that have been used as traditional folk antitumor agents in Korea were studied by using Ames mutagenicity teat. Most of the methanolic extracts from the plants which were used in this experiment showed strong antimutagenic activity toward atlatoxin B₁(AFB₁) in Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and TA98. However, N-methyl-N'-vitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) induced mutagenicity was not blocked by adding the methanolic extracts of the plants except persimmon leaves (Diospyros kaki Thunberg) and Elaeagnus umbellata.

• 문숙희(경남전문대학 식품영양과) | Suk-Hee Moon
• 박건영(부산대학교 식품영양학과) | Kun-Young Park
• 정해영(부산대학교 약학과) | Hae. Young Chung
• 양한석(부산대학교 약학과) | Han-Suk Young