Rapid Carcinogenicity Testing System with Transgenic Mice Harboring Human Prototype c-HRAS Gene

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-126

  Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a,b   Hayashi, Yuzo ^c   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^c   Nomura, Tatsuji ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

CANCER MODEL; CARCINOGEN TESTING; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0030915568     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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