Chronic liver injury promotes hepatocarcinogenesis of the LEC rat

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 331-335

  Sawaki, Masakuni ^a   Hattori, Atsuo ^b   Tsuzuki, Naoto ^a   Sugawara, Naoki ^a   Enomoto, Katsuhiko ^c   Sawada, Norimasa ^a   Mori, Michio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Division of Pathology   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COPPER; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031926584     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/19.2.331     Document Type: Article

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