High-Level Expression of H-ras and c-myc Oncogenes in Mycoplasma-Mediated Malignant Cell Transformation

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 359-366

  Zhang, Binxue ^a   Shih, James Wai Kuo ^b   Wear, Douglas J ^a   Tsai, Shien ^a   Shyh Ching, L O ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE H RAS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, MYC; GENES, P53; GENES, RAS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MYCOPLASMA; ONCOGENES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA PENETRANS; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0030956870     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-214-44104     Document Type: Article

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