Persistent chemopreventive effect of S-adenosyl-L-methionine on the development of liver putative preneoplastic lesions induced by thiobenzamide in diethylnitrosamine-initiated rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1533-1537

  Simile, Maria M ^a   Saviozzi, Michela ^b   De Miglio, Maria R ^a   Muroni, Maria R ^a   Nufris, Alessandra ^a   Pascale, Rosa M ^a   Malvaldi, Gino ^a   Feo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; THIOBENZAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE H RAS; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARCINOGENS; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MYC; GENES, RAS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; THIOAMIDES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029987613     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.7.1533     Document Type: Article

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