MMTV-induced mutations in mouse mammary tumors: Their potential relevance to human breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-44

  Callahan, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

MMTV; Mouse model system; Mutations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER MODEL; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RESEARCH; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029931782     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01806076     Document Type: Article

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