Development of Hibernomas in Rats Dosed with Phentolamine Mesylate During the 24-Month Carcinogenicity Study

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 558-566

  Poulet, Frederique M ^a   Berardi, Mark R ^a   Halliwell, William ^a   Hartman, Barbara ^a   Auletta, Carol ^b   Bolte, Henry ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Huntingdon Life Sciences New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

brown fat; carcinogenicity; Hibernoma; phentolamine; rat

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; PHENTOLAMINE MESYLATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HIBERNOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; THORAX TUMOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LIPOMA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PHENTOLAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4544380265     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230490505086     Document Type: Article

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