Harvey ras (H-ras) Point Mutations Are Induced by 4-Nitroquinoline-l-oxide in Murine Oral Squamous Epithelia, while Squamous Cell Carcinomas and Loss of Heterozygosity Occur without Additional Exposure

Cancer Research

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 1994, Pages 5310-5317

  Yuan, Bo ^a   Heniford, Briana W ^b   Ackermann, Douglas M ^b   Hawkins, Brian L ^c   Hendler, Fred J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b Division of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology   (United States)

^c Departments of Biochemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 7; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONCOGENE RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

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