Diagnostic Procedure
carcinogen testing
[ kahr-sin-uh-juhn, -jen, kahr-suh-nuh-jen, -noh- test-ing ]
Subclass of:
Toxicity Tests
Definitions related to carcinogenicity tests:
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An assay, usually performed on in vitro systems, in which the propensity of an agent to cause tumors is measured.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Tests to experimentally measure the tumor-producing/cancer cell-producing potency of an agent by administering the agent (e.g., benzanthracenes) and observing the quantity of tumors or the cell transformation developed over a given period of time. The carcinogenicity value is usually measured as milligrams of agent administered per tumor developed. Though this test differs from the DNA-repair and bacterial microsome MUTAGENICITY TESTS, researchers often attempt to correlate the finding of carcinogenicity values and mutagenicity values.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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