Propylene glycol monomethyl ether (PGME): Inhalation toxicity and carcinogenicity in fischer 344 rats and B6C3F1 mice

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 570-579

  Spencer, Pamela J ^a   Crissman, James W ^a   Stott, William T ^a   Corley, Richard A ^a   Cieszlak, Frank S ^a   Schumann, Alan M ^a   Hardisty, Jerry F ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha2U globulin nephropathy; Altered heptocellular foci; Carcinogenicity; Cell proliferation; Glycol ether; Inhalation; Mice; PGME; Propylene glycol monomethyl ether; Rats; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

GLYCOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL METHYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEALKYLATION; DEMETHYLATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EYE IRRITATION; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; LUNG TOXICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ADENOMA; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ALPHA-GLOBULINS; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; NEOPLASMS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; S PHASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036742914     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230290105848     Document Type: Article

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