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. 2007 Jan;56(1):155-6.
doi: 10.1136/gut.2006.107300.

Methylene blue but not indigo carmine causes DNA damage to colonocytes in vitro and in vivo at concentrations used in clinical chromoendoscopy

J Davies, D Burke, J R Olliver, L J Hardie, C P Wild, M N Routledge

Methylene blue but not indigo carmine causes DNA damage to colonocytes in vitro and in vivo at concentrations used in clinical chromoendoscopy

J Davies et al. Gut. 2007 Jan.
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