Absence of carcinogenic activity in Fischer rats and B6C3F1 mice following 103-week inhalation exposures to toluene

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 138-146

  Huff, James ^a  

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

Author keywords

Benzene; Carcinogenesis bioassay; Dimethylbenzene; Long term studies; Methylbenzene; National Toxicology Program; Toluene; Xylene

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE; CARCINOGEN; SOLVENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORESTOMACH; GENETIC TOXICOLOGY; KIDNEY TUMOR; LYMPHOMA CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE TUMOR; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STOMACH TUMOR; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENETICS; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOPLASM; NOSE MUCOSA; PATHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NASAL MUCOSA; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC;

EID: 0043287924     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/oeh.2003.9.2.138     Document Type: Article

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