Methylation of the estrogen receptor CpG island in lung tumors is related to the specific type of carcinogen exposure

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 3655-3658

  Issa, Jean Pierre J ^a,c   Baylin, Stephen B ^a   Belinsky, Steven A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (METHYLNITROSAMINO) 1 (3 PYRIDYL) 1 BUTANONE; CARCINOGEN; DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PLUTONIUM; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOKING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X IRRADIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROSAMINES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 0029784608     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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