The low pH Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) cell transformation assay: A revitalized role in carcinogen prediction

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 356, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-9

  Aardema, Marilyn J ^a   Isfort, Robert J ^a   Thompson, Edward D ^a   Leboeuf, Robert A ^a  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogen detection; Cell transformation; Syrian hamster embryo

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CELL PH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; FOLLOW UP; GENOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGEN TESTING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

EID: 0030596898     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(95)00196-4     Document Type: Article

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