β-catenin is frequently mutated and demonstrates altered cellular location in azoxymethane-induced rat colon tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 42-46

  Takahashi, Mami ^a   Fukuda, Kazunori ^a   Sugimura, Takashi ^a   Wakabayashi, Keiji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; AZOXYMETHANE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOGENS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031984227     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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