Article
The effect of the format of administration and the total dose of phenobarbital on altered hepatic foci following initiation in female rats with diethylnitrosamine.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Jun 1991
Xu Y D, Dragan Y P, Young T, Pitot H C
Abstract excerpt
The effect of changing the format of administration as well as the total dose of the promoting agent phenobarbital (PB) on the development of altered hepatic foci (AHF) was determined in an initiation-promotion protocol with female rats fed the purified AIN-76 diet. Effects on the total number of AHF and the volume percentage of liver occupied by AHF were determined for four histochemical markers, the placental...
Topics
- Animals
- Diethylnitrosamine
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Liver
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
- Phenobarbital
- Phenotype
- Precancerous Conditions
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
