Expression of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase in Yoshida ascites hepatoma cells and the livers of host rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 561-567

  Tessitore, Luciana ^a,b,d   Sesca, Eliana ^d   Bosco, Martino ^d   Vance, Dennis E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b SAN LUIGI GONZAGA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES HEPATOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LIVER CELL; LIVER HYPERPLASIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

EID: 0033065055     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.4.561     Document Type: Article

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