Study of the post-natal effects of chemopreventive agents on ethylnitrosourea-induced transplacental carcinogenesis in rats. II. Influence of low-molecular-weight polypeptide factors from the thymus, pineal gland, bone marrow, anterior hypothalamus, brain cortex and brain white substance

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1931-1934

  Alexandrov, Valerij A ^a   Bespalov, Vladimir G ^a   Morozov, Vjacheslav G ^a   Khavinson, Vladimir Kh ^a   Anisimov, Vladimir N ^a  

^a N N PETROV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BRAIN PEPTIDE; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; POLYPEPTIDE; THYMUS PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIFESPAN; MALE; NERVE TUMOR; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSPLACENTAL CARCINOGENESIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029789579     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.9.1931     Document Type: Article

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