Evaluation of carcinogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate, drawing on tumor incidence data from fourteen chronic/carcinogenicity rodent studies
Glyphosate, an herbicidal derivative of the amino acid glycine, was introduced to agriculture in the 1970s. Glyphosate targets and blocks a plant metabolic pathway not found in animals, the shikimate pathway, required for the synthesis of aromatic amino acids in plants. After almost forty years of c...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Taylor & Francis
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4819582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25716480 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10408444.2014.1003423 |