Prediction of rodent carcinogenicity of further 30 chemicals bioassayed by the U.S. National Toxicology Program

Environ Health Perspect. 1996 Oct;104 Suppl 5(Suppl 5):1041-4. doi: 10.1289/ehp.96104s51041.

Abstract

Recently the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) sponsored a comparative exercise in which different prediction approaches (both biologically and chemically based) were challenged for their predictive abilities of rodent carcinogenicity of a common set of chemicals. The exercise enjoyed remarkable scientific success and stimulated NTP to sponsor a second challenging round of tests, inviting participants to present predictions relative to the rodent carcinogenicity of a further 30 chemicals; these are currently being tested. In this article, we present our predictions based on structure-activity relationship considerations. In our procedure, first each chemical was assigned to an activity mechanism class and then, with semiquantitative considerations, was assigned a probability carcinogenicity score, taking into account simultaneously the hypothesized action mechanism and physical chemical parameters.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carcinogenicity Tests*
  • Carcinogens / chemistry
  • Carcinogens / toxicity*
  • Mice
  • Rats
  • Structure-Activity Relationship

Substances

  • Carcinogens