Frequent mutations of the rat β-catenin gene in colon cancers induced by methylazoxymethanol acetate plus 1-hydroxyanthraquinone

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 232-237

  Suzui, Masumi ^a,b   Ushijima, Toshikazu ^a   Dashwood, Roderick H ^a   Yoshimi, Naoki ^b   Sugimura, Takashi ^a   Mori, Hideki ^b   Nagao, Minako ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin, 1 hydroxyanthraquinone; Colitis associated rat colon carcinogenesis; Methylazoxymethanol acetate

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; BETA CATENIN; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONCOGENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CATENIN; CODON; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032958592     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199903)24:3<232::AID-MC10>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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