Activation of serum response factor in the liver of Long-Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rat

Cancer Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-141

  Maeda, Yutaka ^a   Taira, Takahiro ^a   Haraguchi, Kensaku ^b   Hirose, Kyogo ^a   Kazusaka, Akio ^a   Fujita, Shoichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copper; Long Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rat; Serum response factor (SRF)

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RAT; WILSON DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COPPER; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0030661850     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00263-2     Document Type: Article

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