Effect of Mouse Intestinal Bacteria on Incidence of Colorectal Tumors Induced by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine Injection in Gnotobiotic Transgenic Mice Harboring Human Prototype c-Ha-ras Genes

Experimental Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-117

  Narushima, Seiko ^a   Itoh, Kikuji ^a   Mitsuoka, Tomotari ^a   Nakayama, Hiroyuki ^a   Itoh, Toshio ^b   Hioki, Kyoji ^b   Nomura, Tatsuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Ha ras gene; Colorectal tumor; Gnotobiote; Intestinal bacteria; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS MUSCULUS;

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; ONCOGENE RAS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

1,2-DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; ANIMALS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GERM-FREE LIFE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 0032042772     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.47.111     Document Type: Article

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