Thyroid tumours in rats and hepatomas in mice after griseofulvin treatment

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1978, Pages 237-249

  Rustia, M ^a   Shubik, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRISEOFULVIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HAMSTER; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; RAT; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOMA; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GRISEOFULVIN; HAMSTERS; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0018092820     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1978.194     Document Type: Article

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