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Document ID (ISN)45936
CIS number 86-706
ISBN(s) 0-89116-304-2
Year 1985
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Rickert D.E.
Title Toxicity of nitroaromatic compounds
Bibliographic information Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 79 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA, 1 Dec. 1985. 295p. Illus. Bibl. Price: US$49.50 (USA and Canada).
Abstract Papers presented at the Fifth Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Conference on Toxicology, held in Raleigh, North Carolina (USA), 28-29 Jan. 1982. They cover: occurrence and uses of nitroaromatic compounds in industry; carcinogenicuty, mutagenicity and teratogenicity of the compounds; interaction of the compounds with DNA; sex, strain and species differences in rodent response to nitrobenzene; mammalian and bacterial metabolism of nitroaromatics; skin penetration; absence of reduced fertility among chemical plant workers exposed to dinitrotoluene and toluene diamine; subclinical effects of trinitrotoluene; risk assessment.
Descriptors (primary) mutagenic effects; chemical industry; toxicology; aromatic nitro compounds; carcinogenic effects; explosives industry; teratogenic effects
Descriptors (secondary) USA; 2,3-dinitrotoluene; nitrobenzene; 2,4-dinitrotoluene; trinitrotoluene; 1-nitropyrene; 1,8-dinitropyrene; 6-nitrochrysene; p-nitroaniline; p-chloronitrobenzene; epidemiologic study; animal experiments; human experiments; mutagenicity tests; conference; 2,6-dinitrotoluene; 2,4-diaminotoluene
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Chemical industry
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures
Antifertility and prenatal effects
Aliphatic nitro compounds