Urinary bladder carcinogenicity of dimethylarsinic acid in male F344 rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1873-1876

  Wei, Min ^a   Wanibuchi, Hideki ^a   Yamamoto, Shinji ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Fukushima, Shoji ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACODYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CACODYLIC ACID; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PAPILLOMA; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0032872583     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.9.1873     Document Type: Article

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