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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1990

Chemical carcinogenesis: too many rodent carcinogens.

B N Ames, L S Gold

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
63citing papers in PubMed
25.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 496 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Evaluation of the reproductive and developmental risks of caffeine.Birth defects research. Part B, Developmental and reproductive toxicology · 2011
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  17. Homologous Recombination and Its Role in Carcinogenesis.Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology · 2002
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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

B N AmesDivision of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
L S Gold
University of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

VIROLOGY AND CHRONIC INFECTIONP30ES001896 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI SMITH, MARTYN T · 1985 to 2003
$4.7M
MUTAGENESIS AND CARCINOGENESISR35CA039910 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI AMES, BRUCE N · 1985 to 1998
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NCI NIH HHS CA39910NIEHS NIH HHS ES01896
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The administration of chemicals at the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) in standard animal cancer tests is postulated to increase cell division (mitogenesis), which in turn increases rates of mutagenesis and thus carcinogenesis. The animal data are consistent with this mechanism, because a high proportion--about half--of all chemicals tested (whether natural or synthetic) are indeed rodent carcinogens. We conclude that at the low doses of most human exposures, where cell killing does not occur, the hazards to humans of rodent carcinogens may be much lower than is commonly assumed.

Indexed as

CarcinogensMiceRatsAnimalsCarcinogenicity TestsCell DivisionDose-Response Relationship, DrugHumansMitogensMutagenicity TestsMutationNeoplasmsRisk FactorsCarcinogensMitogens

Identifiers

PMID2217209
PMCPMC54830
OpenAlexW2094536764

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