Critique of dose response in carcinogenesis

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 413-436

  Waddell, William J ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Dose response; Linear; Logarithmic; Lognormal; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ACRONINE; AFLATOXIN; ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; ANTHRAQUINONE; CHLOROPRENE; DIANISIDINE; DICHLOROMETHANE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DIGOXIN; DIOXIN; ETHYLBENZENE; FURAN; LASIOCARPINE; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MIREX; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE; NAPHTHALENE; OCHRATOXIN; PHENESTERIN; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; RADIUM; SALICYLIC ACID; SODIUM ION; STYRENE; TAMOXIFEN; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DATA BASE; DNA ADDUCT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HORMESIS; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; AFLATOXINS; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA; DNA ADDUCTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 33746540007     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0960327106ht633oa     Document Type: Review

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