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No-effect level in the mutagenic activity of the drug cyproterone acetate in rat liver. Part I. Single dose treatment.
Mutation research - 4 Jun 2004
Topinka Jan, Oesterle Doris, Reimann Roland, Wolff Thomas
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The anti-androgen and progestagen cyproterone acetate (CPA) is known to cause liver tumors in rats. The drug has been identified recently as a mutagen in the liver of female transgenic lambdalacI (Big Blue) rats at high doses after an expression time of 6 weeks. A dose of 50 mg CPA/kg BW, however, did not increase the mutation frequency (MF) of controls indicating a no-effect level of mutagenicity [Carcinogenesis...
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