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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-9-19
pubmed:abstractText
Acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acrylate (EA) and n-butyl acrylate (BA) are widely used in the production of plastics, coatings and acrylic fibres. Occupational exposure occurs primarily via inhalation and/or skin contact. In chronic inhalation experiments EA and BA did not induce neoplastic changes in rats and mice (Klimisch and Reininghaus 1984; Miller et al. 1985). Additional investigations showed that AA and BA were not carcinogenic in mice after chronic dermal application (De Pass et al. 1984). However, recently other authors reported a weak carcinogenic potential of AA and BA after chronic dermal administration to mice (Cote et al. 1986). The conditions of the latter study lead to the suggestion that the observed tumours had developed secondarily due to the local irritating and corrosive properties of AA and BA. This view is supported by the negative results of AA, EA and BA in the conventional Ames test (Waegemaekers and Bensink 1984). Mutagenicity data in mammalian cell systems of EA were equivocal (Henschler 1986) and were lacking for AA and BA. For this reason the mutagenic potential of AA and BA was investigated in Syrian hamster embryo fibroblasts (SHE cells). DNA repair (UDS assay), chromosomal changes (micronucleus assay) and morphological transformation were chosen as biological end-points.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0340-5761
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
63
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
250-1
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Non-genotoxicity of acrylic acid and n-butyl acrylate in a mammalian cell system (SHE cells).
pubmed:affiliation
Hüls AG, Ps-Biologie/Toxikologie, Marl, Federal Republic of Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article