Sporadic and thorotrast-induced angiosarcomas of the liver manifest frequent and multiple point mutations in K-ras-2

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 153-159

  Przygodzki, Ronald M ^a,b   Finkelstein, Sydney D ^c   Keohavong, Phoutone ^c   Zhu, Dan ^c   Bakker, Anke ^c   Swalsky, Patricia A ^c   Soini, Ylermi ^a   Ishak, Kamal G ^b   Bennett, William P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; THORIUM DIOXIDE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; ONCOGENE RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOGENS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 0031036909     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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