Rapid and high yield induction of endometrial adenocarcinomas in CD-I mice by a single intrauterine administration of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea combined with chronic 17β-estradiol treatment

Cancer Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-12

  Takahashi, Masakazu ^a   Iijima, Tetsuo ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Ando Lu, Jin ^a   Yoshida, Midori ^a   Kitamura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nishiyama, Kan ^a   Miyajima, Katuhiro ^a   Maekawa, Akihiko ^a  

^a SASAKI INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; CD 1 mice; Endometrial adenocarcinoma; Estrogen progesterone ratio; N Ethyl N nitrosourea; Persistent estrous mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ESTRADIOL; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; MACROGOL; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029975232     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04221-8     Document Type: Article

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