The activation of K-ras gene at an early stage of lung tumorigenesis in mice

Cancer Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-170

  Ichikawa, Tomio ^a   Yano, Yoshihisa ^b   Uchida, Mikako ^a   Otani, Shuzo ^b   Hagiwara, Kiyokazu ^c   Yano, Tomohiro ^c  

^a MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

Author keywords

K ras gene; Lung; Mutant allele; Polymerase chain reaction; Tumorigenesis; Urethane

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; TETRAGASTRIS BALSAMIFERA;

EID: 0030598156     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04351-0     Document Type: Article

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