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Genotoxicity of hormonal steroids.
Toxicology letters - 15 Jun 2004
Joosten H F P, van Acker F A A, van den Dobbelsteen D J, Horbach G J M J, Krajnc E I
Abstract excerpt
Hormonal steroids have a widespread use in medicine and their side effects are continuously debated. The possible genotoxic activity of steroids has been the subject of many investigations. The natural estrogens estradiol, estrone and estriol are generally negative in the ICH core battery of tests, but several positive results have been obtained when using additional endpoints of genotoxicity. The genotoxic...
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