Pineal melatonin inhibition of tumor promotion in the N-nitroso-N-methylurea model of mammary carcinogenesis: potential involvement of antiestrogenic mechanisms in vivo

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 526-532

  Blask, David E ^a   Pelletier, Diane B ^a   Hill, Steven M ^a   Lemus Wilson, Athena ^a   Grosso, David S ^a   Wilson, Sean T ^a   Wise, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hormones; Melatonin; N Nitroso N methylurea; Pineal

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MELATONIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OVARIECTOMY; PINEAL GLAND; PROLACTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0026041631     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: 14321335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01613283     Document Type: Article

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