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Assessing chemical mutagens : the risk to humans

Title
Assessing chemical mutagens : the risk to humans / edited by Victor K. McElheny, Seymour Abrahamson.
Publication
[Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.] : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • McElheny, Victor K.
  • Abrahamson, Seymour.
  • United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances.
Description
xiii, 367 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Banbury report ; 1
Uniform Title
Banbury report ; 1.
Subject
  • Chemical mutagenesis > Congresses
  • Mutagenicity testing > Congresses
  • Mutagens > congresses
  • Mutagens > toxicity > congresses
  • Mutagenèse chimique > Congrès
  • Mutagénicité > Congrès
  • Chemical mutagenesis
  • Mutagenicity testing
  • Chemikalie
  • Mutation
  • Banbury Center
  • chemicals
  • schade
  • damage
  • mutagenese
  • mutagenesis
  • mutagenen
  • mutagens
  • mutaties
  • mutations
  • toxicologie
  • toxicology
  • Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Teratology, Reproduction Toxicity
  • Carcinogenese, mutagenese, teratologie, reproductietoxiciteit
Genre/Form
  • Congresses.
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Edited proceedings of a meeting sponsored by the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in May 1978 at Banbury Center, Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Introduction / Richard N. Hill -- Mutation and disease in humans / James V. Neel -- Strengths and weaknesses of tests for mutagenesis / W. Gary Flamm -- Bacterial mutagenicity testing : some practical considerations / Eric Eisenstadt -- Theory and design of short-term bacterial tests for mutagenesis / Graham C. Walker -- DNA repair / Richard Setlow -- Cytogenic studies and risk assessment for chemicals and ionizing radiation / J. Grant Brewen -- Radiation-induced cancer / John W. Baum -- low-dose and species-to-species extrapolation for chemically induced carcinogenesis / David Hoel -- Estimating radiation-induced genetic disease burdens / Seymour Abrahamson -- Risk assessment of ethylene oxide and other compunds / Lars Ehrenberg -- Dosimetry of alkylating agents / William R. Lee -- Are benzene effects limited to the chomosomal level? / Verne Ray -- General aspects of comparative mutagenesis / Lawrence R. Valcovic.
ISBN
  • 0879692006
  • 9780879692001
LCCN
79000998
OCLC
  • ocm04664514
  • 4664514
  • SCSB-5621
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library