Inhibition of DNA cytosine methyltransferase by chemopreventive selenium compounds, determined by an improved assay for DNA cytosine methyltransferase and DNA cytosine methylation

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 597-604

  Fiala, Emerich S ^a   Staretz, Marianne E ^b   Pandya, Gagan A ^a   El Bayoumy, Karam ^a   Hamilton, Stanley R ^c  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL SELENOCYANATE; CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYSTINE; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031869119     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.4.597     Document Type: Article

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