Exposure to dimethylarsinic acid, a main metabolite of inorganic arsenics, strongly promotes tumorigenesis initiated by 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide in the lungs of mice

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 767-770

  Yamanaka, Kenzo ^a   Ohtsubo, Kaori ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Hayashi, Hiroyuki ^b   Ohji, Hiroshi ^b   Kanisawa, Masayoshi ^b   Okada, Shoji ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; ARSENIC; CACODYLIC ACID; INORGANIC COMPOUND; TUMOR PROMOTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; METABOLITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; ANIMALS; CACODYLIC ACID; CARCINOGENS; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; COCARCINOGENESIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE;

EID: 0029877529     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.4.767     Document Type: Article

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