Changes in gap junctional intercellular communication in mouse skin carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-21

  Holden, Peter R ^a,b   McGuire, Brenda ^a   Stoler, Andrea ^a,c   Balmain, Allan ^a   Pitts, John D ^a  

^a BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Central Toxicology Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CONNEXIN 43; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HYBRID CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SPINDLE CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PAPILLOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031410187     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.1.15     Document Type: Article

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