Multiple organ carcinogenicity of inhaled chloroprene (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene) in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice and comparison of dose-response with 1,3-butadiene in mice

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 867-878

  Melnick, Ronald L ^a   Sills, Robert C ^a   Portier, Christopher J ^a   Roycroft, Joseph H ^a   Chou, Billy J ^b   Grumbein, Sondra L ^b   Miller, Rodney A ^b  

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

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; CARCINOGEN; CHLOROPRENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORESTOMACH; HARDER GLAND; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; MAMMARY GLAND; MESENTERY; MOUSE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SURVIVAL; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 0032903865     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.5.867     Document Type: Article

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