Article
An initiation-promotion assay in rat liver as a potential complement to the 2-year carcinogenesis bioassay.
Fundamental and applied toxicology : official journal of the Society of Toxicology - 1 Apr 1991
Dragan Y P, Rizvi T, Xu Y H, Hully J R, Bawa N, Campbell H A, Maronpot R R, Pitot H C
Abstract excerpt
Several pharmaceutical agents, manufacturing chemicals, and environmental contaminants were found to act primarily as promoting agents in an initiation-promotion paradigm. The phenotypic distribution of four enzyme markers--placental glutathione-S-transferase (PGST), gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), canalicular ATPase (ATPase), and glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase)--was analyzed in altered hepatic foci (AHF) by...
Topics
- Animals
- Carcinogenicity Tests
- Diet
- Female
- Liver
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
- Male
- Molecular Conformation
- Naphthols
- Norbornanes
- Phenobarbital
