Article
Effects of polychlorinated biphenyls in rat liver: quantitative analysis of enzyme-altered foci.
Toxicology and applied pharmacology - 1 Dec 1991
Luebeck E G, Moolgavkar S H, Buchmann A, Schwarz M
Abstract excerpt
The promotional effect of various polychlorinated biphenyls and phenobarbital on enzyme-altered lesions in the rat liver was quantified within the framework of the two-stage carcinogenesis model of Moolgavkar and colleagues. The experiment analyzed here followed an initiation-promotion protocol in which female Wistar rats were initiated with diethylnitrosamine (DEN) at 10 mg/kg body wt for 10 days followed by a...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Animals
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Division
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Diethylnitrosamine
- Female
- Liver
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
- Mathematics
- Models, Biological
