Carcinogenicity tests of certain environmental and industrial chemicals

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 75-88

  Weisburger, Elizabeth K ^a   Ulland, Borge M ^b,c   Nam, Jun Mo ^d   Gart, John J ^d   Welsburger, John H ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Litton Bionetics Inc   (United States)

^c Department of Genetic and Molecular Toxicology   (United States)

^d Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention ^*  (United States)

^e AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETIOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; ALPHA-CHLOROHYDRIN; ANIMALS; AZIDES; AZIRIDINES; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DIOXOLANES; DIOXOLES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHER, ETHYL; ETHYLENETHIOUREA; FEMALE; MALE; PROPANE; RATS; SEMICARBAZIDES; SODIUM AZIDE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFIDES; THIOAMIDES; THIOCARBAMATES; THIOPHENES;

EID: 0019495095     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/67.1.75     Document Type: Article

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