Mutagenicity of the potent rat hepatocarcinogen 6BT to the Liver of transgenic (lacI) rats: Consideration of a reduced mutation assay protocol

Mutagenesis

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-47

  Lefevre, P A ^a   Tinwell, H ^a   Ashby, J ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CARCINOGEN; DNA; RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MITOSIS; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOTHIAZOLES; CARCINOGENS; DIET; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIVER; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTATION; P-DIMETHYLAMINOAZOBENZENE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBOFLAVIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THIAZOLES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031026612     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/12.1.45     Document Type: Article

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