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ReviewJournal of applied toxicology : JAT2020

Issues in assessing the health risks of n-butanol.

Deborah Segal, Ambuja S Bale, Linda J Phillips, Alan Sasso, Paul M Schlosser, C Starkey, Susan L Makris

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of applied toxicology : JAT, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Deborah SegalEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), Washington, DC.ORCID 0000-0003-2916-8766
Ambuja S BaleEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), Washington, DC.
Linda J PhillipsEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), Washington, DC.
Alan SassoEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), Washington, DC.
Paul M SchlosserEPA ORD, NCEA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
C StarkeyFormerly ORISE Research Fellow at EPA,, Alexandria, Virginia.
Susan L MakrisEPA Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA), Washington, DC.
National Center for Environmental Assessment (EPA) · USOrthopaedic Research of Virginia · USResearch Triangle Park Foundation · US

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A literature review and health effects evaluation were conducted for n-butanol, a chemical that occurs naturally in some foods, which is an intermediate in the production of butyl esters and can be used as a gasoline additive or blend. Studies evaluating n-butyl acetate were included in the review as n-butyl acetate is rapidly converted to n-butanol following multiple routes of exposure. The primary n-butanol health effects identified were developmental and nervous system endpoints. In conducting the literature review and evaluating study findings, the following observations were made: (1) developmental findings were consistently identified; (2) neurodevelopmental findings were inconsistent; (3) evidence for nervous system effects was weak; (4) comparing internal doses from oral and inhalation exposures using physiologically based pharmacokinetic models introduces uncertainties; and (5) a lack of mechanistic information for n-butanol resulted in the reliance on mechanistic data for ethanol, which may or may not be applicable to n-butanol. This paper presents findings from a literature review on the health effects of n-butanol and proposes research to help reduce uncertainty that exists due to database limitations.

Indexed as

Toxicity Tests1-ButanolAcetatesAnimalsEmbryonic DevelopmentEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental PollutantsFemaleHumansNervous SystemNeurotoxicity SyndromesPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsRisk AssessmentToxicokinetics1-ButanolAcetatesbutyl acetateEnvironmental Pollutantsdevelopmental neurotoxicityhealth assessmentn-butanolrisk assessmenttoxicology

Identifiers

PMID31231852
PMCPMC9528569
OpenAlexW2955564104

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.