Investigations on the mutagenicity of 1,4-dichlorobenzene and its main metabolite 2,5-dichlorophenol in vivo and in vitro

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 470, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-167

  Tegethoff, Kerstin ^a   Herbold, Bernd A ^a   Bomhard, Ernst M ^a  

^a BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

1,4 Dichlorobenzene; 2,5 Dichlorophenol; HPRT gene mutation assay; Mouse bone marrow micronucleus test; Mutation frequency

Indexed keywords

1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTOXICITY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOUSE; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; CHLOROBENZENES; CHLOROPHENOLS; CHO CELLS; FEMALE; HAMSTERS; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0034739691     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(00)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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