The influence of estrogen treatment on induction of mammary carcinoma in rats by single-dose gamma irradiation at different ages

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 451-458

  Bartstra, R W ^a   Bentvelzen, P A J ^a   Zoetelief, J ^a   Mulder, A H ^b   Broerse, J J ^a,c   Van Bekkum, D W ^d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory for Pathology   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0031704560     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579665     Document Type: Article

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