Quantitative structure-carcinogenicity relationship for detecting structural alerts in nitroso compounds: species, rat; sex, female; route of administration, gavage.

Chemical carcinogenicity is of primary interest because it drives much of the current regulatory actions regarding new and existing chemicals and conventional experimental tests take around 3 years to design, conduct, and interpret in addition to costing hundreds of millions of dollars, millions of skilled personnel hours, and millions of animal lives. Thus, theoretical approaches such as the one proposed here, quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR), are increasingly used for assessing the risks of environmental chemicals, since they can markedly reduce costs, avoid animal testing, and speed up policy decisions. This paper reports a QSAR study based on the TOPological Substructural MOlecular DEsign (TOPS-MODE) approach, aimed at predicting the rodent carcinogenicity of a set of nitroso compounds selected from the Carcinogenic Potency Data Base (CPDB). The set comprises 26 nitroso compounds, divided into N-nitrosoureas, N-nitrosamines, and C-nitroso compounds, which have been bioassayed in fem...

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