Initiation and promotion of altered hepatic foci in female rats and inhibition of cell-cell communication by the imidazole fungicide prochloraz

Chemosphere

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-403

  Kato, Y ^a   Flodstrom S ^a   Warngard L ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PROCHLORAZ;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOGENS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IMIDAZOLES; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032144826     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00056-3     Document Type: Article

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