Synergistic effect of MNU and DMBA in mammary carcinogenesis and H-ras activation in female Sprague-Dawley rats

Cancer Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-93

  Shirai, Katsumasa ^a   Uemura, Yoshiko ^a   Fukumoto, Manabu ^b   Tsukamoto, Tetsuya ^c   Pascual, Rhett ^c   Nandi, Satyabrata ^c   Tsubura, Airo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DMBA; H ras; Mammary carcinoma; MNU; Sprague Dawley rat

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE H RAS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR VOLUME;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; POINT MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030729706     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00293-0     Document Type: Article

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