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. 1980 Nov;42(5):772–781. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1980.311

Morphology of nasal-cavity tumours in rats after chronic inhalation of 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane.

G Reznik, H Reznik-Schüller, J M Ward, S F Stinson
PMCID: PMC2010558  PMID: 7459212

Abstract

Groups of 50 F344 rats of each sex sere exposed to 0.6 or 3.0 pts/10(6) of 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) by inhalation for 6 h/day, 5 days/week for 103 weeks. Fifty rats of each sex inhaling filtered air were used as unexposed controls. All survivors were killed at 104 weeks. Up to 93% of the male and female rats developed neoplasms of the nasal cavity. Most of the tumours were adenomas, squamous-cell papillomas, squamous-cell carcinomas, and adenocarcinomas. In the low-dose group 78% of the tumours in males and 66% in females were benign, whereas in the high-dose groups 89% in males and 76% in females were malignant. Invasion through the cribriform plate into the cerebrum or metastasis to the regional lymph nodes was found in 73% of the carcinomas in males and 51% in females. Electron-microscopic examination suggested that the basal cells of the olfactory epithelium were the site of origin of the poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas.

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