Differential Expression of the Normal and Mutated K-ras allelesin Chemically Induced Thymic Lymphomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 1991, Pages 5129-5133

  Corominas, Montserrat ^a,c   Newcomb, Elizabeth W ^a   Pellicer, Angel ^a   Perucho, Manuel ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b California Institute of Biological Research   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; LYMPHOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS;

ANIMAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, RAS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPHOMA; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA PROBES; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0026045915     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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