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Those are also known for damaging tendons. I was already planning on avoiding them, but now I have even more reasons!
by strstr 6y ago
Those are also known for damaging tendons. I was already planning on avoiding them, but now I have even more reasons!
- stevebmark 6y agoI would also avoid them because: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7678175/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7678175/ > Compared to a potent eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase type II poison ... ciprofloxacin produced comparable dose-dependent SCE frequency increases. Translated: Compared to a chemotherapy drug designed to cause DNA breaks to prevent cell replication, ciprofloxacin produced similar "sister chromatid exchange" counts, which happen when damaged DNA strands need to pull in duplicate material from "sister" strands. Counting SCEs is also used to measure human DNA mutations from things like carcinogens and radiation.
- exikyut 6y agoInteresting. How is "counting SCEs" done? A sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473638) mentions the difficulty of acquiring pre-event context for these kinds of situations. Could this sort of testing be useful here?