Assessment of the cancer potential of methanol

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 347-363

  Cruzan, George ^a  

^a ToxWorks   (United States)

Author keywords

NEDO; Oncogenicity; Ramazzini

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL; CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUDITORY CANAL; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; RAT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; EXPOSURE; FISCHER 344 RAT; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; MOUSE STRAIN; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; METHANOL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 68849107627     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: 15476898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408440802475199     Document Type: Review

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