Pathogenetic characterization of 1-methyl-1-nitrosourea-induced mammary carcinomas in the rat

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 223-227

  Lu, Junxuan ^a   Jiang, Cheng ^a   Mitrenga, Terry ^a   Cutter, Gary ^a   Thompson, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLNITROSOUREA; CARCINOGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PALPATION; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CODON; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENOTYPE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0031594617     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.1.223     Document Type: Article

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