Nongenotoxic carcinogenicity of chemicals: Mechanisms of action and early recognition through a new set of structural alerts

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2940-2957

  Benigni, Romualdo ^a   Bossa, Cecilia ^a   Tcheremenskaia, Olga ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENIC PROCESS; ERROR PRONES; GROWTH FACTOR; INTRACELLULAR COMMUNICATION; MEMBRANE RECEPTORS; NONGENOTOXIC CARCINOGENS; SECONDARY MECHANISMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS;

CARCINOGENS; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMMUNICATION; GROWTH KINETICS; REPAIR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE;

DNA;

CARCINOGEN; MUTAGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CARCINOGENS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MUTAGENS; NEOPLASMS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84877658983     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cr300206t     Document Type: Review

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