 Carcinogens
"Carcinogens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Substances that increase the risk of NEOPLASMS in humans or animals. Both genotoxic chemicals, which affect DNA directly, and nongenotoxic chemicals, which induce neoplasms by other mechanism, are included.
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D002273
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.888.569.100
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carcinogens" by people in Profiles.
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Windmill KF, McKinnon RA, Zhu X, Gaedigk A, Grant DM, McManus ME. The role of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes in arylamine toxicity and carcinogenesis: functional and localization studies. Mutat Res. 1997 May 12; 376(1-2):153-60.
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Graham MJ, Lucier GW, Linko P, Maronpot RR, Goldstein JA. Increases in cytochrome P-450 mediated 17 beta-estradiol 2-hydroxylase activity in rat liver microsomes after both acute administration and subchronic administration of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in a two-stage hepatocarcinogenesis model. Carcinogenesis. 1988 Nov; 9(11):1935-41.
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