Quantitation of early clonal expansion of two mutant 61st codon c-Ha-ras alleles in DMBA/TPA treated mouse skin by nested PCR/RFLP

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2551-2557

  Finch, Joanne S ^a   Albino, H Emanuel ^a   Bowden, G Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER MODEL; CODON; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR PROMOTION;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CODON; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; MICE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE;

EID: 0030461080     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.12.2551     Document Type: Article

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