Comparative Carcinogenic Effects of Nickel Subsulfide, Nickel Oxide, or Nickel Sulfate Hexahydrate Chronic Exposures in the Lung

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 1995, Pages 5251-5256

  Dunnick, June K ^a   Elwell, Michael R ^a   Radovsky, Ann E ^a   Benson, Janet M ^b   Hahn, Fletcher F ^b   Nikula, Kristan J ^b   Barr, Edward B ^b   Hobbs, Charles H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL SUBSULFIDE; NICKEL SULFATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMAL; BODY BURDEN; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; NICKEL; ORGAN WEIGHT; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028789346     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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