Association of tumor development with increased cellular proliferation and transgene overexpression, but not c-Ha-ras mutations, in v-Ha-ras transgenic Tg.AC mice

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1825-1833

  Hansen, Laura A ^a,b   Trempus, Carol S ^c   Mahler, Joel F ^a   Tennant, Raymond W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; TUMOR PROMOTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUKEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODONTOGENIC TUMOR; ONCOGENE C H RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSGENE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; YOLK SAC TUMOR;

EID: 0029818405     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.9.1825     Document Type: Article

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