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Induction of lacI mutations in Big Blue rats treated with tamoxifen and alpha-hydroxytamoxifen.
Cancer letters - 8 Feb 2002
Gamboa da Costa Gonçalo, Manjanatha Mugimane G, Marques M Matilde, Beland Frederick A
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The antiestrogen tamoxifen is carcinogenic in the liver and uterus of rats. Liver tumors appear to result from sequential hydroxylation and esterification of the alpha-carbon of tamoxifen followed by DNA adduct formation. The mechanism for the induction of uterine tumors is not known. Big Blue rats were treated by intraperitoneal injection with 21 daily doses of 54 micromol/kg tamoxifen or its proximate...
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