Effects of 5-fluorouracil derivative UFT on thymidylate synthetase and thymidine kinase in rat colorectal tumors

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1 A, 1999, Pages 245-250

  Sakamoto, Shinobu ^a,b   Kawachi, Yasuyuki ^a   Iwama, Takeo ^a   Kuwa, Katsuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Toshie ^a   Mitamura, Tadasu ^a   Kudo, Hideki ^a   Sassa, Shuji ^a   Yoshimura, Shintarou ^a   Maemura, Tadatoshi ^a   Nakayama, Tohru ^a   Ohsawa, Mai ^a   Hara, Yukichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; Histological differentiation; Rat colorectal tumors; Thymidine kinase; Thymidylate synthetase

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIMETHYLHYDRAZINE; FLUOROURACIL; PYRIMIDINE ANTAGONIST; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; MALE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TEGAFUR; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; URACIL;

EID: 0032897374     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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