Genotoxicity of styrene-acrylonitrile trimer in brain, liver, and blood cells of weanling F344 rats

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-238

  Hobbs, Cheryl A ^a   Chhabra, Rajendra S ^b   Recio, Leslie ^a   Streicker, Michael ^c   Witt, Kristine L ^b  

^a Research Triangle Park ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ILS Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer; Chromosomal damage; Comet assay; DNA damage; Micronuclei; Superfund

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; STYRENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN TOXICITY; CEREBELLUM; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTOXICITY; LIVER CELL; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETICULOCYTE;

ACRYLONITRILE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BRAIN; COMET ASSAY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LIVER; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STYRENE; STYRENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS;

EID: 84857796687     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.21680     Document Type: Article

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