High incidence of nitrosamine-induced tumorigenesis in mice lacking DNA repair methyltransferase

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1631-1635

  Iwakuma, Tomoo ^a   Sakumi, Kunihiko ^a   Nakatsuru, Yoko ^b   Kawate, Hisaya ^a   Igarashi, Hisato ^a   Shiraishi, Akiko ^a   Tsuzuki, Teruhisa ^a   Ishikawa, Takatoshi ^b   Sekiguchi, Mutsuo ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ALKYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; FEMALE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031427721     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.8.1631     Document Type: Article

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