3,3',4,4'-Tetrachlorobiphenyl exhibits antiestrogenic and antitumorigenic activity in the rodent uterus and mammary cells and in human breast cancer cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-123

  Ramamoorthy, Kavita ^a   Gupta, Mona Sethi ^a   Sun, Gulan ^a   McDougal, Andrew ^a   Safe, Stephen H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3,3',4,4' TETRACHLOROBIPHENYL; 3,3',4,4',5 PENTACHLOROBIPHENYL; 7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CATHEPSIN D; CREATINE KINASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PEROXIDASE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION; UTERUS;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; ORGAN SIZE; PEROXIDASES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROMEGESTONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UTERUS;

EID: 0032897801     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.1.115     Document Type: Article

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