Test for Carcinogenicity of Organic Contaminants of United States Drinking Waters by Pulmonary Tumor Response in Strain A Mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 37, Issue , 1977, Pages 2717-2720

  Theiss, Jeffrey C ^b   Shimkin, Michael B ^b   Weisburger, Elizabeth K ^b  

^a Experimental Pathology Branch ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84965814829     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
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