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. 2005 Apr 7;113(9):1125–1133. doi: 10.1289/ehp.7667

Table 1.

List of chemicals considered in the quantitative analysis for which there are both early-life and adult exposure reported in the same animal experiment.

Chemical References Study type Mutagenic mode of action
Amitrole Vesselinovitch 1983 Repeat dosing
Benzidine Vesselinovitch et al. 1975b Repeat dosing X
Benzo[a]pyrene Vesselinovitch et al. 1975a Acute exposure X
Dibenzanthracene Law 1940 Acute exposure X
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Vesselinovitch et al. 1979a Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
Dieldrin Vesselinovitch et al. 1979a Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
Diethylnitrosamine Peto et al. 1984 Lifetime exposure X
Vesselinovitch et al. 1984 Acute exposure
Dimethylbenz[a]anthracene Meranze et al. 1969 Acute exposure X
Pietra et al. 1961 Acute exposure
Walters 1966 Acute exposure
Dimethylnitrosamine Hard 1979 Acute exposure X
Diphenylhydantoin, 5,5- Chhabra et al. 1993b Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
Ethylnitrosourea Naito et al. 1981 Acute exposure X
Vesselinovitch et al. 1974 Acute exposure
Vesselinovitch 1983 Acute exposure
Ethylene thiourea Chhabra et al. 1992 Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
3-Methylcholanthrenea Klein 1959 Repeat dosing X
N-Methylnitrosourea Terracini and Testa 1970 Acute exposure
Terracini et al. 1976 Acute exposure X
Polybrominated biphenyls Chhabra et al. 1993a Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
Safrole Vesselinovitch et al. 1979a Repeat dosing
Lifetime exposure
X
Urethane Chieco-Bianchi et al. 1963 Acute exposure X
Choudari Kommineni et al. 1970 Acute exposure
De Benedictis et al. 1962 Acute exposure
Fiore-Donati et al. 1962 Acute exposure
Klein 1966 Acute exposure
Lifetime exposure
Liebelt et al. 1964 Acute exposure
Rogers 1951 Acute exposure
Vinyl chloride Maltoni et al. 1984 Repeat dosing X

X, chemicals with a mutagenic mode of action. The chemicals listed here are from the list of more than 50 chemicals found to have carcinogenic effects from prenatal or postnatal exposures in animals [Supplementary Table S1 (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/7667/supp.pdf)].

a

Formerly known as 20-methylcholanthrene.