Alterations in H-ras1 promoter conformation during N-nitroso-N- methylurea-induced mammary carcinogenesis and pregnancy

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 4927-4935

  Jin, Zhuang ^b,c   Houle, Benoit ^a,b,d   Mikheev, Andrei M ^a,b   Cha, Rita S ^b,e   Zarbl, Helmut ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0029904708     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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