The use of the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) biomarker as an early detection model of chemically induced cancer

Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-39

  Capó, Miguel A ^a   Frejo, M Teresa ^a   Sevil, Belén ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrogial cultures; Environmental chemicals; Fibrillary astrocytes; Fibrous gliosis; GFAP

Indexed keywords

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030872103     PISSN: 07318898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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