Effect of toxaphene on estrogen receptor functions in human breast cancer cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1651-1654

  Bonefeld Jørgensen, Eva C ^a   Autrup, Herman ^a   Hansen, Jens Carl ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPHECLOR; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSACTIVATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TOXAPHENE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0031410094     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.8.1651     Document Type: Article

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