The effect of connexin32 null mutation on hepatocarcinogenesis in different mouse strains

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1379-1382

  Moennikes, Oliver ^b   Buchmann, Albrecht ^b   Ott, Thomas ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a   Schwarz, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Institut für Toxikologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; DNA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CONNEXINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIETHYLNITROSAMINE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATASE; HETEROZYGOTE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; TIME FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032773598     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.7.1379     Document Type: Article

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