carcinogenic agent

This substance is classified as a Category 3 carcinogenic agent.

Surely, using carcinogenic agents even in minute amounts cannot be ignored for this "unexpected" increase in lung cancer.

The origin and time of introduction of the carcinogenic agent causing the genetic stress, the group will address in a separate report.

This form of smoke contains essentially all of the same carcinogenic agents that have been identified in the mainstream smoke, but at greater levels.

Other azo dyes, which were previously used in textiles, printing, and plastic manufacturing, have been implicated as carcinogenic agents that can cause bladder cancer.

Tar includes the majority of mutagenic and carcinogenic agents in tobacco smoke (IARC, 1986).

One study showed that cypermethrin inhibits "gap junctional intercellular communication", which plays an important role in cell growth and is inhibited by carcinogenic agents.

Does the Commission intend to follow the recommendation of the ASPECT report and classify passive tobacco smoke as a carcinogenic agent?

Evaluations as a possible carcinogenic agent showed there is inadequate evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of pyridine, albeit there is limited evidence of carcinogenic effects on animals.

He was responsible for the use of fluorescence spectroscopy in the collaborative study of carcinogenic agents in coal-tar which led to the discovery of the activity of 3:4 - benzpyrene.

Reporting in a coming issue of Nutrition and Cancer, their team tested Hawaiian teriyaki and an Indian turmeric-garlic marinades on beef and found that both slowed production of carcinogenic agents.

Virtually safe doses are calculated by regulatory agencies to represent the level of exposure to such carcinogenic agents at which an excess of cancers greater than that level accepted by society is not expected.

Although nicotine is the predominant addictive chemical in tobacco smoke, it is the other (approximately 4000) chemicals, including carcinogenic agents in the particulate phase, that lead to the well-established adverse health consequences of smoking.

The concept of "field cancerization" hypothesizes that regions of the mucosal epithelium, although normal in appearance, are "preconditioned" by chronic exposure to carcinogenic agents, thus priming them for the subsequent development of invasive lesions [ 2 ] .

In the Bronx, people can be seen daily fishing off the Pelham Bay Landfill on Eastchester Bay, exposing themselves needlessly to toxic waste, heavy metals and any number of carcinogenic agents, despite bilingual warning signs and miles of fencing.

"It is not unfair to liken the situation now facing Congress to cancer, and to liken the league to a significant carcinogenic agent," said the letter of resignation, signed by Charles T. Munger, Berkshire's vice chairman and the chairman of the savings association.

The increasing incidence of anal cancer we observed was apparent well before the sexual liberation in Denmark in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the possibility exists that a potentially carcinogenic agent has become increasingly common in the anal region as a result of changing sexual habits.

Most such dismantling, as we all know, takes place on beaches and river banks on the Indian subcontinent with no or minimal concern for the most basic rules of protection of humans and of the environment from contamination by a variety of toxic substances, including numerous carcinogenic agents.

Declaring in July 1986 that "exposure to asbestos fibers, a known carcinogenic agent, creates a serious risk to the public health and safety," the Legislature pointed to "an increasing number of rehabilitation and reconstruction projects on buildings containing asbestos" as a source of increased risk and concern for the public.

DCM has a unique profile of negative effects on human health: it is a carcinogenic agent, has a narcotic effect and, at a high level of exposure, causes depression of the central nervous system, loss of consciousness and cardiotoxic effects, with a direct risk of death as a consequence of inappropriate use.

Dr. Lemon's preliminary results make sense in the light of several findings reported by other researchers, as well as by Lemon himself: Laboratory animal studies totaling more than 500 rat-years have demonstrated that estriol is the most active protective estrogen ever tested against cancers of the breast induced by several potent carcinogenic agents," including radiation."