"Vinyl Chloride" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A gas that has been used as an aerosol propellant and is the starting material for polyvinyl resins. Toxicity studies have shown various adverse effects, particularly the occurrence of liver neoplasms.
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D014752
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.271.884.750 D02.455.526.439.975
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vinyl Chloride" by people in Profiles.
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Molecular epidemiology of p53 protein mutations in workers exposed to vinyl chloride. Am J Epidemiol. 1998 Feb 01; 147(3):302-8.
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Environmental hepatic injury in man. Prog Liver Dis. 1979; 6:605-38.