Mismatch repair and differential sensitivity of mouse and human cells to methylating agents

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-214

  Humbert, Odile ^a   Fiumicino, Silvia ^b   Aquilina, Gabriele ^b   Branch, Pauline ^a   Oda, Shinya ^a   Zijno, Andrea ^b   Karran, Peter ^a   Bignami, Margherita ^b  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; METHYLNITROSOUREA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CHROMOSOME 2; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

3T3 CELLS; ALKYLATING AGENTS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICE; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032931714     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.2.205     Document Type: Article

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