Developmental exposure to diethylstilbestrol elicits demethylation of estrogen-responsive lactoferrin gene in mouse uterus

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4356-4359

  Li, Shuanfang ^a   Washburn, Kimberly A ^a   Moore, Rick ^a   Uno, Tomohide ^a   Teng, Christina ^a   Newbold, Retha R ^a   McLachlan, John A ^b   Negishi, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; LACTOFERRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; OVARIECTOMY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR GENE; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARCINOGENS; CPG ISLANDS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DNA METHYLATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; LACTOFERRIN; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0030817594     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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