Increased gap junctional intercellular communication capacity and connexin 43 and 26 expression in rat bladder carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 2163-2166

  Asamoto, Makoto ^a   Takahashi, Satoru ^a   Imaida, Katsumi ^a   Shirai, Tomoyuki ^a   Fukushima, Shoji ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2',3 DIMETHYL 4 BIPHENYLAMINE; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NITROSAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINOBIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; ANIMAL; BLADDER; BLADDER NEOPLASMS; BUTYLHYDROXYBUTYLNITROSAMINE; CARCINOGENS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED ACI; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028113628     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/15.10.2163     Document Type: Article

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