Should atrazine and related chlorotriazines be considered carcinogenic for human health risk assessment?

Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part C Environmental Carcinogenesis and Ecotoxicology Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-144

  Jowa, Lubow ^a   Howd, Robert ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; cancer; mammary tumors; risk assessment; simazine

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CHLORO-S-TRIAZINES; CLASTOGENICITY; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENDOCRINE EFFECTS; ENDOCRINE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOOD INTAKE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS; HIGH DOSE; HORMONAL CONTROL; HUMAN CARCINOGEN; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN TOXICITY; INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCERS; MAMMARY TUMORS; MANUFACTURING WORKERS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUTAGENICITY; PESTICIDE APPLICATORS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SIMAZINE; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WEIGHT LOSS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HEALTH RISKS; HERBICIDES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RATS; STRAIN; TUMORS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINO 1,3,5 TRIAZINE; 2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ETHYLAMINOTRIAZINE; 2 AMINO 4 CHLORO 6 ISOPROPYLAMINO TRIAZINE; 2,4 DIAMINO 6 CHLORO S TRIAZINE; ATRAZINE; DEETHYLATRAZINE; DIAMINOCHLORO TRIAZINE; ESTROGEN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 30; HERBICIDE RESIDUE; HYDROXYATRAZINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROPAZINE; SIMAZINE; TERBUTYLAZINE; THIO METHYOXY S TRIAZINE; TRIBENURON METHYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST ADENOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DOG; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENOTOXICITY; HALF LIFE TIME; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART DISEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TUBULAR ADENOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHARMACOKINETICS; PROSTATE CANCER; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY EXCRETION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; DOGS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICE; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PESTICIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIAZINES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 79958791377     PISSN: 10590501     EISSN: 15324095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10590501.2011.577681     Document Type: Article

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