Short-term effects of 1-nitropyrene on chromosomes and on oncogene/tumor suppressor gene expression in vivo

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6 A, 1998, Pages 4489-4492

  Pusztai, Zsuzsanna ^a   Selypes, Andras ^a   Ember, Istvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

1 Nitropyrene; c myc; Chromosome aberration; Gene expression; Ha ras; Mice; p53

Indexed keywords

1 NITROPYRENE; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; THYMUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, RAS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MUTAGENS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLOIDIES; PYRENES; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032434932     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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