Promoting effect of large amounts of vitamin A on cell proliferation of thyroid proliferative lesions induced by simultaneous treatment with thiourea

Cancer Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-31

  Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^a   Onodera, Hiroshi ^a   Takahashi, Masakazu ^b   Shimo, Takeo ^a   Yasuhara, Kazuo ^a   Takegawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Takahashi, Michihito ^a   Hayashi, Yuzo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SASAKI INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combined effect; Promotion; Rat; Thiourea; Thyroid carcinogenesis; TSH; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

BIS(2 HYDROXYPROPYL)NITROSAMINE; DRINKING WATER; RETINOL; THIOUREA; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPLASIA; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029939003     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04182-1     Document Type: Article

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