• 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 4  (1) , 411-417
Abstract
The formation of liver sinusoidal cell tumors after exposure to vinyl chloride led to a survey of hepatocytes and sinusoidal cells isolated from rat liver as to their ability to metabolically activate vinyl chloride and vinyl bromide. Metabolism of these vinyl halides to reactive metabolites is confined primarily to hepatocytes. This favors the theory that in the liver reactive metabolites of vinyl chloride leave the hepatocytes to act on hepatic sinusoidal cells.