Carcinogenicity and chronic toxicity in rats and mice exposed by inhalation to 1,2-dichloroethane for two years

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 424-436

  Nagano, Kasuke ^a   Umeda, Yumi ^a   Senoh, Hideki ^a   Gotoh, Kaoru ^a   Arito, Heihachiro ^a   Yamamoto, Seigo ^a   Matsushima, Taijiro ^a  

^a JAPAN INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,2 dichloroethane; Carcinogenicity; Chronic toxicity; Inhalation; Mouse; Rat

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CARCINOGENICITY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROMA; INCIDENCE; LIVER ADENOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; ETHYLENE DICHLORIDES; FEMALE; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC;

EID: 33846109935     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.48.424     Document Type: Article

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