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Book Review: Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 374: Relevance of Animal Studies to the Evaluation of Human Cancer Risk

Book Review: Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 374: Relevance of Animal Studies... ATLA 22, 56-57, 1994 Book Reviews--- PROGRESS IN CLINICAL AND action of a compound, or the fact that interspecies BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH variation exists. For example, Neil Johnson's paper' highlights how animal inhalation studies have been Volume 374: Relevance of Animal a poor model for predicting that crocidolite, erionite Studies to the Evaluation of Human and glass fibres would all be carcinogenic, whilst, Cancer Risk as yet, there is no evidence of carcinogenicity of Edited by Robert D'Amato, Thomas J. Salga, glass fibres in man. Nevertheless, these studies William H. Farland & Carol Henry have highlighted details in their mode of action, Wiley-Liss, NY, USA the relevance of fibre length, fibre clumping and 482 pp., £98.00/US$147.00 surface chemistry. Studies of benzene metabolism ISBN 0-471-56183-5 further highlight what a poor model the rat is for This book contains the proceedings of a symposium man, with tumours not only arising in different with the same title, held in Texas, USA, in organs to those found in man, but also from December 1990. Like all meeting proceedings, the different embryonic tissues and showing totally quality of the individual contributions varies disparate dose-response relationships. considerably, from the clear and relevant to those The sections http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Book Review: Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 374: Relevance of Animal Studies to the Evaluation of Human Cancer Risk

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 22 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 1994

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SAGE
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© 1994 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
ISSN
0261-1929
eISSN
2632-3559
DOI
10.1177/026119299402200109
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ATLA 22, 56-57, 1994 Book Reviews--- PROGRESS IN CLINICAL AND action of a compound, or the fact that interspecies BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH variation exists. For example, Neil Johnson's paper' highlights how animal inhalation studies have been Volume 374: Relevance of Animal a poor model for predicting that crocidolite, erionite Studies to the Evaluation of Human and glass fibres would all be carcinogenic, whilst, Cancer Risk as yet, there is no evidence of carcinogenicity of Edited by Robert D'Amato, Thomas J. Salga, glass fibres in man. Nevertheless, these studies William H. Farland & Carol Henry have highlighted details in their mode of action, Wiley-Liss, NY, USA the relevance of fibre length, fibre clumping and 482 pp., £98.00/US$147.00 surface chemistry. Studies of benzene metabolism ISBN 0-471-56183-5 further highlight what a poor model the rat is for This book contains the proceedings of a symposium man, with tumours not only arising in different with the same title, held in Texas, USA, in organs to those found in man, but also from December 1990. Like all meeting proceedings, the different embryonic tissues and showing totally quality of the individual contributions varies disparate dose-response relationships. considerably, from the clear and relevant to those The sections

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