Differences in rates of benzene metabolism correlate with observed genotoxicity

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-56

  Kenyon, Elaina M ^a   Kraichely, Robert E ^a   Hudson, Kinnya T ^a   Medinsky, Michele A ^a  

^a CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; BENZENE; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; HYDROQUINONE; PHENOL;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TOXICOKINETICS; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

EID: 0030070379     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1996.0005     Document Type: Article

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