A possible medium-term assay for detecting the effects of liver and colon carcinogens in rats

Cancer Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-75

  Ghia, Marco ^a   Mattioli, Francesca ^a   Mereto, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aberrant crypt foci; Medium term carcinogenicity assay; Rat colon carcinogens; Rat liver carcinogens; Glutamyltranspeptidase positive foci

Indexed keywords

AZOXYMETHANE; CARCINOGEN; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE; TUMOR PROMOTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CARCINOGEN TESTING; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE CRYPT; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR PROMOTION;

EID: 0030593486     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04267-X     Document Type: Article

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