Dietary estrogens stimulate human breast cells to enter the cell cycle

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages 633-636

  Dees, Craig ^a,c   Foster, James S ^b   Ahamed, Shamila ^b   Wimalasena, Jay ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c PhotoGen LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiestrogen; Breast cancer; DDT; Phytoestrogen; Xenoestrogen

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT; GENISTEIN; ZEARALENONE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CELL; CANCER CELL; CELL CYCLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS;

EID: 0030926453     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s3633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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