Studies on the proliferative activity of diethylnitrosamine-induced hepatocellular carcinomas in monkeys

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 439-443

  Lapis, Karoly ^a   Bocsi, Joseph ^a   Timar, Ferenc ^a   Lapis, Peter ^b   Thorgeirsson, Unnur P ^c  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AgNOR counts; DEN induced liver cancer; flow cytometric DNA analysis; hepatocellular carcinoma; monkey; S phase fraction

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLNITROSAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER NODULE; LUNG METASTASIS; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; S PHASE; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 0031006252     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199704)181:4<439::AID-PATH798>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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