Rat Pig-a mutation assay responds to the genotoxic carcinogen ethyl carbamate but not the non-genotoxic carcinogen methyl carbamate

Mutagenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 343-347

  Bemis, Jeffrey C ^c   Labash, Carson ^c   Avlasevich, Svetlana L ^c   Carlson, Kristine ^c   Berg, Ariel ^c   Torous, Dorothea K ^c   Barragato, Matthew ^c   Macgregor, James T ^b   Dertinger, Stephen D ^a  

^a LITRON LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Toxicology Consulting Services   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMIC ACID METHYL ESTER; CARCINOGEN; EPOXIDE; URETHAN; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTAGENIC AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL GLYCAN-CLASS A PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL MUTANT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTOXICITY ASSAY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIG A MUTATION ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULOCYTE; TOXIC DOSE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; CARBAMATES; CARCINOGENS; DNA DAMAGE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULOCYTES; URETHANE;

EID: 84929584348     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geu084     Document Type: Article

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