N-Ethyl-N-nitrosourea induces mammary cancers in the pituitary-isografted mouse which are histologically and genotypically distinct from those induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea

Cancer Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 159-165

  Swanson, Steven M ^a,b   Guzman, Raphael C ^a   Tsukamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Huang, Tony T ^a   Dougherty, Carter D ^a   Nandi, Satyabrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammary tumorigenesis; Mouse; N ethyl n nitrosourea; Pituitary isograft

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; ETHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HYPOPHYSIS GRAFT; ISOGRAFT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENS; COCARCINOGENESIS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOTYPE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029670233     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04175-4     Document Type: Article

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