Inhibition of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase increases azoxymethane-induced colonic tumors in rats

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2355-2360

  Wali, Ramesh K ^a   Skarosi, Susan ^a   Hart, John ^a   Zhang, Yingchun ^a   Dolan, M Eileen ^a   Moschel, Robert C ^b   Nguyen, Lan ^a   Mustafi, Reba ^a   Brasitus, Thomas A ^a   Bissonnette, Marc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 O BENZYLGUANINE; AZOXYMETHANE; BETA CATENIN; MACROGOL 400; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033400226     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.12.2355     Document Type: Article

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