Liver tumors induced in B6C3F1 mice by 7-chlorobenz[a]anthracene and 7-bromobenz[a]anthracene contain K-ras protooncogene mutations

Cancer Letters

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-25

  Xia, Qingsu ^a   Yi, Ping ^a   Zhan, De Jin ^a   Von Tungeln, Linda S ^a   Hart, Ronald W ^a   Heflich, Robert H ^a   Fu, Peter P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

7 Bromobenz a anthracene; 7 Chlorobenz a anthracene; K ras oncogene; Liver tumors; Neonatal mouse

Indexed keywords

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADENOMA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

ADENOMA, LIVER CELL; ANIMALS; ANTHRACENES; BENZ(A)ANTHRACENES; CARCINOGENS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; GENES, RAS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; POINT MUTATION; RNA, NEOPLASM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032536103     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00366-2     Document Type: Article

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