Antigenotoxic properties of different plant oils and the influence of olfactory bias

Abstract

In this study, antigenotoxic effects and developmental toxicity of frankincense and blue anemone oils were aimed to be analysed and the olfactory bias was aimed to be checked to see the possibility of an interaction between the olfactory perception and antigenotoxicity of the plant oils. The somatic mutation and recombination test was used to analyze genotoxicity, developmental process of Drosophila melanogaster was screened and the feeding assay was used to perform an olfactory bias test. Genotoxicity test results showed that none of the oils affected the spot frequencies compared to negative control and they caused 73.3 - 100 % inhibitions after the cotreatment with H2O2. None of them caused any significant difference in puparation and eclosion. The frankincense and blue anemone oils were also found antigenotoxic in this study and these effects were independent from the olfactory perception because the rates of feeding were similar to the one observed with negative control.