Dose and Time Relationships for Tumor Induction in the Liver and Esophagus of 4080 Inbred Rats by Chronic Ingestion of A-Nitrosodiethylamine or W-Nitrosodimethylamine

Cancer Research

Volumn 51, Issue , 1991, Pages 6452-6469

  Peto, Richard ^a,b   Gray, Richard ^a,b   Brantom, Paul ^a,b   Grasso, Paul ^a,b  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0026353166     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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