Effects of environmental estrogens on tumor necrosis factor α-mediated apoptosis in MCF-7 cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2057-2061

  Burow, Matthew E ^a   Tang, Yan ^a   Collins Burow, Bridgette M ^a   Krajewski, Stanislaw ^b   Reed, John C ^b   McLachlan, John A ^a   Beckman, Barbara S ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; CHLORPHENOTANE; DNA FRAGMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0032697107     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.11.2057     Document Type: Article

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